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KING HENRY JEERS AT BECKET'S PENANCE.
office. The Archbishopric is at the disposal of the king.
For a moment Henry pauses. He is not at peace with the clergy. To them the Pope is higher than the King. His glance falls npon Becket. Here is the sort of Archbishop that he needs, a conrtier ready to do the bidding of his king, a man of adroit address, of vast wealth, of worldly knowledge and desires.
The king is not without a sardonic sense of humor. He will make his Chancellor an archbishop.
Aghast at the honor thrust upon him, Becket would refuse the office, but the insistence of the king is not to be denied. Slowly Becket kneels, and about his neck is thrown the chain which supports the cross. The Archbishop of Canterbury is no longer dead, but now he is called Thomas instead of Theobald.
The second scene establishes in a few fleeting feet of film the character of the man far better than it could
be done in pages of character drawing.
The son of a Saracen mother, converted to Christianity, thru love for Gilbert a Becket, a London merchant made a prisoner and a slave while on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Becket at heart was a deeply religious man, tho the calling of his conscience had been stilled by his life at court and by kingly favor. His embassy to France, when the magnificence of his retinue moved the French to wonderment, had still further contributed to the carelessness of his conduct, but his elevation to the Archbishopric deeply moved him, and we see him in his chamber of his palace seeking to convince himself that the appointment was ordained of God and not merely the jest of his royal master.
In a vision he perceives an angel of the Lord; and, in answer to his eager questioning, he is assured that indeed he is the chosen of the Almighty, and with his eyes upon the
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