Priest
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With light hearts they drank the warm wine and water from the shallow cup, and their spirits rose still higher when the priest, throwing back his vestments, took their hands in his and led them round the lectern while a bass voice sang, Rejoice O Isaiah!Young Shcherbatsky and Chirikov, who were supporting the crowns and getting entangled in the bride's train, smiled too and were pleased without knowing why, when they chanced to lag behind or jostle the young couple if the
priest
happened to stop.
Levin fancied that the
priest
and deacon wanted to smile just as he did.
Having lifted the crowns from their heads, the
priest
read the last prayer and congratulated the married couple.
The
priest
helped him out of the difficulty, saying softly, with a smile on his kindly mouth, 'Kiss your wife; and you, kiss your husband!'
Kitty sent for the
priest
to read the prayers for the dying.
While the
priest
read, the dying man showed no sign of life: his eyes were closed.
Having finished the prayer, the
priest
touched the cold forehead with his cross which he then wrapped in his stole, and after standing in silence another two minutes, touched the enormous bloodless hand, which was growing cold.
'He has passed away,' said the
priest
and turned to go; but suddenly the clammy moustache of the dying man moved and from the depth of his chest through the stillness came his voice, sharp and distinct:'Not quite!...Soon.'
She was in love with all the new Princes and Princesses who became connected with the Imperial family, she was in love with a Metropolitan, a Suffragan, and a
priest.
In the cathedral Levin, with the others, raised his hand, repeating the words of the priest, and swore by the most awful oaths to fulfil all the things the Governor had hoped for.
The
priest
was ordered to read it.
One doesn't tell the priest."
"Oh! the
priest!
She was not religious, but she had suddenly imagined that this
priest
would give her something.
A gleam of hope made her hasten, for she had recognized the Montsou priest, Abbé Joire, who said mass on Sundays at the settlement chapel.
But what completed their discomfiture was a sermon by the new curé, Abbé Ranvier, that lean
priest
with eyes like red-hot coals who had succeeded Abbé Joire.
Then the
priest
stood and talked at length.
"Come on Sunday to mass," cried the
priest.
The middle class throughout the province had been roused to anger by the story of this
priest
who treated the soldiers as murderers.
When she went to confession, she invented little sins in order that she might stay there longer, kneeling in the shadow, her hands joined, her face against the grating beneath the whispering of the
priest.
The
priest
declined very politely.
When the chemist no longer heard the noise of his boots along the square, he thought the
priest'
s behaviour just now very unbecoming.
Ah! you will find many prejudices to combat, Monsieur Bovary, much obstinacy of routine, with which all the efforts of your science will daily come into collision; for people still have recourse to novenas, to relics, to the priest, rather than come straight to the doctor or the chemist.
This mockery of the first of the sacraments made the Abbe Bournisien angry; old Bovary replied by a quotation from "La Guerre des Dieux"; the cure wanted to leave; the ladies implored, Homais interfered; and they succeeded in making the
priest
sit down again, and he quietly went on with the half-finished coffee in his saucer.
Her illness, it appears, was a kind of fog that she had in her head, and the doctors could not do anything, nor the
priest
either.
"These young scamps!" murmured the priest, "always the same!"
"Not well," replied Emma; "I am ill.""Well, and so am I," answered the
priest.
"You look out, Riboudet," cried the
priest
in an angry voice; "I'll warm your ears, you imp!"Then turning to Emma, "He's Boudet the carpenter's son; his parents are well off, and let him do just as he pleases.
She fixed her pleading eyes upon the
priest.
But the
priest
suddenly distributed a shower of cuffs among them.
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