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So cold was the room that these lords wore their Russian far hats

How exotic it had looked to ht with rateful for a bundles of valuables to the allies of Prince Michael in the Lithuanian forts to the west

But these were Europeans I had never respected them

My Father had taughtfor the right to rule us

"No one goes up against those thieves," s of honor and valor It"

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For all his stamina in the saddle, for all his dexterity with the bow and arrow, and his blunt brute force with the broadsword, he had the ability with his long fingers to pluck outwith cleverness the narrative songs of the ancient ti those of Byzantium, her riches the wonder of all the world

Within a lance at these olden wine cups, their big fur-tri on fancy Turkish foot rests, their shoulders hunkered, their shadows crowding the walls And then, without their ever having knoere there, we slipped away

It was tio to the other hilltop city, the Pechersk, under which lay the many catacombs of the Monastery of the Caves

I treht of it It seemed the mouth of the Monastery would s h the ht of the stars, never to find my way out

But I went there, trudging through the ained access, this ti the locks silently withthe doors as I opened thees, and dashing swiftly across rooms so that mortal eyes perceived noat all

The air ar, but memory told me it had not been so terribly warht of cheap oil, several brothers were bent over their slanted desks, working on their copying, as if the printing press were of no concern to them, and surely it was not

I could see the texts on which they worked and I knew them-the Paterikon of the Kievan Caves Monastery, with its marvelous tales of the Monastery's founders and its many colorful saints

In this roo over that text, I had learned fully to read and write I crept now along the wall until e which onemodel from which he worked

I knew this part of the Paterikon by heart It was the Tale of Isaac Deels, and even pretending to be Christ Himself When Isaac had fallen for their tricks, they had danced with glee and taunted him But after much meditation and penance, Isaac stood up to these demons