An inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . dearest friends,and gladly unite their voices in the everlasting the table, to conclude the inventory of the room,hung a set of regulations for MM. les retraitants: whatservices they should attend, when they were to tell theirbeads or meditate, and when they were to rise and go torest. At the foot was a notable N. B.: Le temps libreest employe a Vexamen de conscience, a la confession, a fairede bonnes resolutions,^ etc. To make good resolutions,indeed! You might talk as fruitfully of making the hairgrow on your head. I had scarce explore
An inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . dearest friends,and gladly unite their voices in the everlasting the table, to conclude the inventory of the room,hung a set of regulations for MM. les retraitants: whatservices they should attend, when they were to tell theirbeads or meditate, and when they were to rise and go torest. At the foot was a notable N. B.: Le temps libreest employe a Vexamen de conscience, a la confession, a fairede bonnes resolutions,^ etc. To make good resolutions,indeed! You might talk as fruitfully of making the hairgrow on your head. I had scarce explored my niche when Brother Ambrose Our Lady of the Snows 55 returned. An English boarder, it appeared, would liketo speak with me. I professed my willingness, and thefriar ushered in a fresh, young little Irishman of fifty, adeacon of the Church, arrayed in strict canonicals, andwearing on his head what, in default of knowledge, I canonly call the ecclesiastical shako. He had lived sevenyears in retreat at a convent of nuns in Belgium, and now. Mount St. Michael at Le Puy five at our Lady of the Snows; he never saw an Englishnewspaper; he spoke French imperfectly, and had hespoken it like a native, there was not much chance ofconversation where he dwelt. With this, he was a maneminently sociable, greedy of news, and simple-mindedlike a child. If I was pleased to have a guide about themonastery, he was no less delighted to see an Enghshface and hear an English tongue. 56 Travels with a Donkey He showed me his own room, where he passed his timeamong breviaries, Hebrew bibles, and the Waverley he led me to the cloisters, into the chapter-house,through the vestry, where the brothers gowns and broadstraw hats were hanging up, each with his religious nameupon a board, — names full of legendary suavity andinterest, such as Basil, Hilarion, Raphael, or Pacifique;into the library, where were all the works of Veuillot andChateaubriand, and the Odes et Ballades, if you please
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