Good morning, Marshal, said the prelate.

"We shall always be most happy to hear you," said the prelate.

"I hadn't expected him to look like that," said the prelate, musing.

"Keep them both in memory of this morning," said the prelate.

"Tell me the whole thing," said the prelate suddenly and hoarsely.

"I am the Abbot of Waverley, fair son," said the prelate.

"It is short, but we must be satisfied with that," said the prelate.

"Speak to him from your heart, my child," said the prelate.

"It was a superb ceremony, was it not?" said the prelate.

"I find," said the prelate, "that we have been lost for ten years.

"Look," said the prelate suddenly; "what's that place we're coming to?"

"Show me into Father Rodin's room," said the prelate, after a moment's silence.

"You must not let the matter trouble you," said the prelate, after a pause.

"Come hither, my haughty Isabel," said the prelate, as the demoiselles now drew near.

I was on the point of asking you yesterday, again and again, but something marvellous distracted me each time, said the prelate, smiling.

"Bethink you also that this world is but the antechamber of the next," said the prelate.