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"
But
could
anyone
possibly
eat
sixty
monks
?
"
objected
the
scoffing
listeners
.
"
It
is
quite
clear
that
he
did
not
eat
them
all
at
once
,
but
in
a
space
of
fifteen
or
twenty
years
:
from
that
point
of
view
the
thing
is
comprehensible
and
natural
...
"
"
Natural
?
"
"
And
natural
,
"
repeated
Lebedeff
with
pedantic
obstinacy
.
"
Besides
,
a
Catholic
monk
is
by
nature
excessively
curious
;
it
would
be
quite
easy
therefore
to
entice
him
into
a
wood
,
or
some
secret
place
,
on
false
pretences
,
and
there
to
deal
with
him
as
said
.
But
I
do
not
dispute
in
the
least
that
the
number
of
persons
consumed
appears
to
denote
a
spice
of
greediness
.
"
"
It
is
perhaps
true
,
gentlemen
,
"
said
the
prince
,
quietly
.
He
had
been
listening
in
silence
up
to
that
moment
without
taking
part
in
the
conversation
,
but
laughing
heartily
with
the
others
from
time
to
time
.
Evidently
he
was
delighted
to
see
that
everybody
was
amused
,
that
everybody
was
talking
at
once
,
and
even
that
everybody
was
drinking
.
It
seemed
as
if
he
were
not
intending
to
speak
at
all
,
when
suddenly
he
intervened
in
such
a
serious
voice
that
everyone
looked
at
him
with
interest
.
"
It
is
true
that
there
were
frequent
famines
at
that
time
,
gentlemen
.
I
have
often
heard
of
them
,
though
I
do
not
know
much
history
.
But
it
seems
to
me
that
it
must
have
been
so
.
When
I
was
in
Switzerland
I
used
to
look
with
astonishment
at
the
many
ruins
of
feudal
castles
perched
on
the
top
of
steep
and
rocky
heights
,
half
a
mile
at
least
above
sea-level
,
so
that
to
reach
them
one
had
to
climb
many
miles
of
stony
tracks
.
A
castle
,
as
you
know
,
is
,
a
kind
of
mountain
of
stones
--
a
dreadful
,
almost
an
impossible
,
labour
!
Doubtless
the
builders
were
all
poor
men
,
vassals
,
and
had
to
pay
heavy
taxes
,
and
to
keep
up
the
priesthood
.
How
,
then
,
could
they
provide
for
themselves
,
and
when
had
they
time
to
plough
and
sow
their
fields
?
The
greater
number
must
,
literally
,
have
died
of
starvation
.
I
have
sometimes
asked
myself
how
it
was
that
these
communities
were
not
utterly
swept
off
the
face
of
the
earth
,
and
how
they
could
possibly
survive
.
Lebedeff
is
not
mistaken
,
in
my
opinion
,
when
he
says
that
there
were
cannibals
in
those
days
,
perhaps
in
considerable
numbers
;
but
I
do
not
understand
why
he
should
have
dragged
in
the
monks
,
nor
what
he
means
by
that
.
"
"
It
is
undoubtedly
because
,
in
the
twelfth
century
,
monks
were
the
only
people
one
could
eat
;
they
were
the
fat
,
among
many
lean
,
"
said
Gavrila
Ardalionovitch
.
"
A
brilliant
idea
,
and
most
true
!
"
cried
Lebedeff
,
"
for
he
never
even
touched
the
laity
.
Sixty
monks
,
and
not
a
single
layman
!
It
is
a
terrible
idea
,
but
it
is
historic
,
it
is
statistic
;
it
is
indeed
one
of
those
facts
which
enables
an
intelligent
historian
to
reconstruct
the
physiognomy
of
a
special
epoch
,
for
it
brings
out
this
further
point
with
mathematical
accuracy
,
that
the
clergy
were
in
those
days
sixty
times
richer
and
more
flourishing
than
the
rest
of
humanity
and
perhaps
sixty
times
fatter
also
...
"
