Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception

expressed his passicnate desire to see me drunk: "Oh, I would have
the order of St. Stanislaus conferred on you, Johnnie, if you would
only get dead drunk !"
After a while 1 realized that the voices behind the partition were
those of Bishop Alexander and Madam Snegirev. I began to suspect
something and the meaning of the Bishop's sentence '*I told you so"
became clear to me. 1 understood why the Bishop sent Father Snegi-
rev to the telephone and why Archbishop Platon gave him an im-
portant errand, in spite of Sunday. This was arranged, of course,
in order to remove all obstacles.
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Meanwhile something was happening in the bedroom because
1 heard a noise. Finally a sound was heard of something falling.
Believing that a brawl was taking place, I jumped ofT the bed and
ran to the dining room. There, Father Slunin hardly able to stand
on his feet, was attempting to rise. Gorokhov, sitting in an arm-chair
held him by a sleeve and pulled him, back to the chair, and Father
Slunin fell into it. Gorokhov admonished him : "Johnnie, sit down,
sit. . . . What's
the use cf show,ing your drunken mug to the
negroes in the street ? Let's have another drink. .
— 30
. ." Finally