{"id":23757,"date":"2024-07-18T10:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=23757"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:37:58","slug":"the-leper-of-saint-giles-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/23757","title":{"rendered":"The Leper of Saint Giles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Leper of Saint Giles<\/em><\/a> (1981) Ellis Peters<\/a> (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)<\/p>\n

\"leper<\/a>Set in Shropshire England in 1139<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope she may be beautiful,\u201d said Mark. <\/p>\n

\u201cPrior Robert would be interested to hear you say so,\u201d said Cadfael drily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

blessedness is what can be snatched out of the passing day, and put away to think of afterwards<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He did not look like a deceiver or a seducer, rather like an overgrown schoolboy, honest, impatient, clever after his fashion, and probably unwise. Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Y)ou do yourself great wrong to misuse words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Cadfael, Abbot Radulfus, Agnes Picard, Arnulf, Avice of Thornbury, Bran, Mark, Oswin, Eudo de Domville, Gilbert Prestcote, Guy Fitzjohn, Huon de Domville, Baron, Joscelin Lucy, Lady Iveta de Massard, Lazarus, Madlen, Prior Robert, Simon Aguilon, Sir Godfrid Picard, Ulgar the wheelwright<\/p>\n

Publisher: Mysterious Press<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Leper of Saint Giles (1981) Ellis Peters (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5) Set in Shropshire England in 1139 \u201cI hope she may be beautiful,\u201d said Mark. \u201cPrior Robert would be interested to hear you say so,\u201d said Cadfael drily. blessedness is what can be snatched out of the passing day, and put away to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192,30,190,292,33,8,41,26],"tags":[120,119,549,877,878],"class_list":["post-23757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-5-10","category-british","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","category-romance","tag-brother-cadfael","tag-ellis-peters","tag-high-middle-ages","tag-medieval","tag-the-anarchy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6bb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6116,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6116","url_meta":{"origin":23757,"position":0},"title":"The Leper of Saint Giles","author":"Michelle","date":"October 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Leper of Saint Giles (1981) Ellis Peters Set in England in 1139. 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