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"I cannot believe otherwise I ale I ahteous one"

"That is e trust you, Sister, because you lead us with honesty"

Unexpectedly, the words brought tears to Rosvita’s eyes Hanna saw it, and she leaned forward as if to touch Rosvita’s hands but pulled back at the last les did not coesture renity was unimpeachable The Lord and Lady love us all equally in their hearts, Hathui had said We are equal, before God

Rosvita stepped outside, onto the porch, and watched the Lions and guards There were sealed jars of oil and a basket of last year’s apples hauled up from a cellar There were precious iron and bronze tools, copper-lined buckets, and baskets filled with iron nails and tallow candles Skeins of spun wool, wool cloth, a churn, a cream pot and paddle, strickles, parchments still stretched on frames, an ox yoke but no ox, and the convent bell with its clapper sheathed The library was an annex built off the chapel and sharing its tile roof, and here Fortunatus directed half a dozen nuns as they wrapped and stowed books in baskets and in crates being nailed together on the spot by a pair of Lions Sister Acella e bundles of dried herbs

"Sister Rosvita, howout onto the porch with Diocletia beside her "If you will sit with the Holy Mother, ill do e can"

"Diocletia, if you will take an accounting of the bedding and household items in the hall, and pack what is necessary for the journey or too valuable to discard Hilaria, I pray you, attend Sister Acella"

Hilaria s escaped her "I’ll see that no stray items are left behind"

It was a relief to return into the hall and seat herself under the eaves beside Mother Obligatia Princess Sapientia bided in the bed next to the:

tru la tru lee tru lo tru lye

where the river flows, did the crow fly

"Books are a precious treasure," said Mother Obligatia, when Rosvita had poured out her concerns to the old woerous as the ones hidden here?"

"Even so In ancient days folk recalled all things in their heads and in this way passed down knowledge frohter What is written in books is more easily lost"

"Do you think so?"

"Think of the library at St Ekatarina’s I still weep to think of it abandoned, perhaps forever lost"

"We have a copy of your chronicle My history The Vita of St Radegundis"