Chapter IX.
How a monk who has money cannot stay in the
monastery.
And
so having money to provide
for his wanderings, with the assistance of which he has fitted himself
as it were with wings, and now being quite ready for his move, he
answers impertinently to all commands, and behaves himself like a
stranger and a visitor, and whatever he sees needing improvement, he
despises and treats with contempt. And though he has a supply of money
secretly hidden, yet he complains that he has neither shoes nor
clothes, and is indignant that they are given out to him so slowly. And
if it happens that through the management of the superior some of these
are given first to one who is known to have nothing whatever, he is
still more inflamed with burning rage, and thinks that he is despised
as a stranger; nor is he contented to turn his hand to any work, but
finds fault with everything which the needs of the monastery require to
be done. Then of set purpose he looks out for opportunities of being
offended and angry, lest he might seem to have gone forth from the
discipline of the monastery for a trivial reason. And not content to
take his departure by himself alone, lest it should be thought that he
has left as it were from his own fault, he never stops corrupting as
many as he can by clandestine conferences. But if the severity of the
weather interferes with his journey and travels, he remains all the
time in suspense and anxiety of heart, and never stops sowing and
exciting discontent; as he thinks that he will only find consolation
for his departure and an excuse for his fickleness in the bad character
and defects of the monastery.