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"I will not be father-confessor to any man. I have enough to do with myself. A good worthy old man like the laird must know better than any other what he ought to do." "There is no doubt of that, sir." "What do you want then?" "To get him to do it. That he knows, is what makes it so miserable. If he did not know he would not be to blame.
Maitre Mouche lifted up his hand with a black woollen glove on it as if making oath to the truth of these statements. Then he added: "I am enabled, by the very character of my profession, to know a great deal about people. A notary is, to a certain extent, a father-confessor.
"Yes, Mrs. Jasher," said the young man, coming softly to the bedside. She thrust out a weak hand and clutched him. "You must be my father-confessor, and hear all. You got the emerald?" "What!" Random recoiled in astonishment, "Did you " "Yes, I sent it to you as a wedding present. I was sorry and I was afraid; and I I " She paused again, gasping. The doctor intervened and gave her more brandy.
Allow me to quote to you the speech of Mademoiselle de Montpensier, 'You had a charming and accomplished wife, you ought to have prevented her from being poisoned, and then we should not have had this hag at Court." Madame de Montespan's Father-confessor. He Alters His Opinion. Madame de Maintenon Is Consulted. A General on Theology. A Country Priest.
She, in truth, could do this; and when I beheld her day by day at her laborious tasks, bravely and cheerfully fulfilling the hard and bitter exercises which her father-confessor enjoined, to the end that she might win the favor of the Saints for her lover, I weened that the Apostle spake the truth when he said that love hopeth all things and believeth all things.
Are you certain that he was not a heretic? For if not, I can not consent to bury him." "I know nothing about it. We don't carry a father-confessor on board, and the poor soul left the world without any priestly assistance that is the lot of sailors.
It only riles people; besides," continued the marine, earnestly, "I was asking God at the moment to enable me to answer you wisely. You see, I think it only fair to reveal some of my private thoughts to you, since you are making a father-confessor of me. But as you admit that drink has done you damage, my dear fellow, there is no need for me to say anything more on that subject.
I had broken my mother's heart! no! I had not! The infernal superstition which taught her to fancy that Heaven's love was narrower than her own that God could hate his creature, not for its sins, but for the very nature which he had given it that, that had killed her. I believe, to this day, that either my poor sister or her father-confessor was the perpetrator of that act.
The Reformers themselves, and Luther especially, fully recognised the value of being able to pour out the inner temptations of the heart to some Christian father-confessor, or even to some other brother in the faith, and to obtain from his lips that comfort of forgiveness which God, in His love and mercy, bestows freely on the faithful.
Perhaps it will be better to let him learn how much in earnest you are with your refusal. It may not be flattering to a young girl to think a man will forget her." "But I want him to forget that part," she interrupted eagerly. "I think he will. And if he comes to me for comfort, I will try to be a wise father-confessor. And yet I can't help pitying the man a little who will lose you.
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