The Fool Errant by Maurice Hewlett
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"Your place of immediate origin?" I was asked. I said, "Padua." "Your present occupation?" "Repentance," I said, and spoke the truth. "Your means of support?" "Grace," said I, and he stamped on the ground. "You are trifling with me--I advise you to take care. Answer me truthfully of what you repent." This angered me. I told him shortly that, like everybody else in the world of my way of thinking, I repented of sin. He turned to his amanuensis. "Write down that the young man refuses to give an account of himself," he said harshly; and then asked me what I wanted of the hospital. I said with heat, "My brother, I had required of it what I now see I am not to expect, charity, namely, both of judgment and act. I am afflicted, as you ought to have seen at once; I need your wisdom--but need most your sympathy--" To my amazement he cut me short, as he had done with the Jew, by the brief command, "Search him." I recoiled as well as I could in my fainting and helpless condition. |
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