Audiobook Dictation: “They bowed low to the priest…”

They bowed low to the priest, and greeted him in the most respectful manner. Kwairyo wondered that persons so poor, and dwelling in such a solitude, should be aware of the polite forms of greeting. "From the kindness of your speech, and from the very polite welcome given me by your household, I imagine that you have not always been a woodcutter. Perhaps you formerly belonged to one of the upper classes?" Smiling, the woodcutter answered:-- "Sir, you are not mistaken. My story is the story of a ruined life--ruined by my own fault. I used to be in the service of a daimyo; and my rank in that service was not inconsiderable. Retribution followed me; and I long remained a fugitive in the land. Now I often pray that I may be able to make some atonement for the evil which I did, and to reestablish the ancestral home.