Chapter 4
voice.
-- I sent for you today, Stepo speak to you on a very important subject.
-- Yes, sir.
-- t you ion?
Steped o ans ed for the answer and added:
-- I mean, o join think.
-- I imes t of it, said Stephen.
t let to one side and, uniting h himself.
-- In a college like t lengto ty, by to oto by t by s. And you, Step of Our Blessed Ladys sodality. Pero call to himself.
A strong note of pride reinforcing ty of ts voice made Step quicken in response.
to receive t call, Step, is test ty God can besto of God. No angel or arc, not even t of God: to bind and to loose from sin, to cast out from tures of God ts t y, to make t God of ar and take t an aephen!
A flame began to flutter again on Stepen
ood in reverence! o muse in secret on t-mannered priest, entering a confessional sly, ascending tarsteps, incensing, genuflecting, accompliss of ty and of tance from it. In t dim life s. ly like suc of sucurned to tar again after o fill ty of celebrant because it displeased o imagine t all t tual so o be vested unicle of subdeacon at o stand aloof from tar, forgotten by ten s folds or, and as deacon in a dalmatic of clotep belo, o Ite missa est. If ever it ures of t ar, and served by an acolyte scarcely more boyisal acts alone o go forto encounter reality; and it ly ted rite ion wo cover o give.
ened in reverent silence noo ts appeal and tinctly a voice bidding kno po t t for s, of oto rendere