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any good heart sorrow, for this was the
order of that office.

The altar was draped in black, and Mass
for the Dead was sung; and all the things
that Waldo would need in the house of his
exile, from the flint and iron which gave
fire to the harp which should give solace,
were solemnly blessed and delivered to him.
Next he was warned not to approach the
dwellings of men, or to wash in running
streams, or to handle the ropes of draw-wells,
or to drink from the cups of wayside springs.
He was forbidden the highways, and when
he went abroad a clapper must give token
of his coming and going. Nothing that
might be used by others should he touch
except with covered hands.

When after these warnings he had been
exhorted to patience and trust in God’s
mercy and love, the brethren formed a pro-
cession, with the cross going before, and led
him away to his hermitage among the wooded
hills. On a little wood-lawn, beyond a
brook crossed by stepping-stones, a hut of
boughs had been prepared for him, and the
Prior. bade him mark the grey boulder on
the further side of the brook, for there he