Word: monke
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...What we gwine to play, Monk?" he said to his brother. The passing of the thing in the glass carriage had left him with a sense of liberty that made him swing his arm and adorn his preliminary question with rhetoric. "Whata we-all gwina play, Monke-ee-Monk-eee-Monk...
...Monk shook his head. Grave with a hidden purpose, he bent and whispered something. There was a tight cluster of wooled heads; every one was in the secret save toddling little Nathan, too young to comprehend...
...Shut up," Monk's voice was peremptory. He turned condescendingly to Nathan...
...remember Carlyle's rage because the old monk, describing King John's visit to the monastery, did not describe the king...
Peter is growing old. His lust for knowledge, conquest, women, has waned. He catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...