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Durtal felt the sudden relaxation of a chilly soul dipped into a warm bath: at Carhaix's one was so far from Paris, so remote from the epoch.... The lodge was poor, but cosy, comfortable, cordial.
The machinery will be run by electricity and we shall have real up-to-date, timbreless, Protestant peals." "Then Carhaix's wife will have a chance to go back to Finistère." "No, they are too poor, and then too Carhaix would be broken-hearted if he lost his bells. Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates. The mechanic's love for his machine.
"Oh, well," said Des Hermies, knowing better than to insist. "Look at this," and took him into the kitchen and showed him a superb leg of mutton hanging beside the window. "I hung it up in a draft so as to get some of the crass freshness out of it. We'll eat it when we have the astrologer Gévingey to dine with us at Carhaix's. As I am the only person alive who knows how to boil a gigot
"The bells ring for others, notably for the trouble-makers. The rather common inscription for the side of a bell, 'Paco cruentos, 'I pacify the bloody-minded, is singularly apt, when you think it over." This conversation was still haunting Durtal when he went to bed. Carhaix's phrase, "The ring of the bells is the real sacred music," took hold of him like an obsession.
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