Bonivard

Byron carved his initials into the pillar where he believed Bonivard to have been chained.

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And the way in which Bonivard at last got reinstalled into his convent is curiously illustrative of the strange condition of society in those times.

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Bonivard, to reserve something comfortable for himself in the shape of

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The former is signed by Bonivard, apostolic prothonotary and

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The office of prior, by virtue of a little arrangement at Rome, descended to Bonivard from his uncle, immediately upon whose demise the young potentate of twenty-one took upon him the state and functions of his office in a way to show the monks of St. Victor that they had no King Log to deal with.

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Bonivard, who grasped his sword and spurred, calling to his guide, "Put spurs!"

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Bonivard never took monastic vows or holy orders, but held his living _in commendam_, as a lay-man.

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The matter was arranged: the duke sent Bonivard his passport, limited to a single month; and the prior arrived at Seyssel, and nearly frightened the poor old lady out of her last breath with her sense of the peril to which he had exposed himself.

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That night the dungeon-door was burst open, and Bonivard and three fellow-prisoners were carried off in triumph to Geneva.

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A wild young fellow like Bonivard, with a lively appreciation of the ridiculous, could not fail to see the comic aspect of the fate which invested him with the spiritual and temporal authority and emoluments of the priory of St. Victor.

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