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The Marquise Postpones Her Repentance and Her Absolution. My father-confessor, who since my arrival at Court had never vexed or thwarted me, suddenly altered his whole manner towards me, from which I readily concluded that the Queen had got hold of him. This priest, of gentle, easy-going, kindly nature, never spoke to me except in a tone of discontent and reproach.
When he found a curiosity equal to his own, he exploited this mine with the cynicism of a father-confessor. But, when he met with health of mind and body, he was as happy as a child to speak of real love and to rise into the lofty regions of sentiment."
Chiefly, though, they talked with the Head, who was father-confessor and agent-general to them all; for what they shouted in their unthinking youth, they proved in their thoughtless manhood to wit, that the Prooshan Bates was "a downy bird."
Ashby knocked the ashes off his cigar with a reflective look, and said, "I rather think, Harry, that I had better make you my father-confessor." "All right," said Harry; "that's what I was made for. Go ahead, my son. Confess out with it. Cleanse your bosom of its perilous stuff: make a clean breast of it." "Well," said Ashby, "in the first place, I'm just now meditating matrimony." "Matrimony!"
At the very same time too, Father Cotton, who was only too ready to betray the secrets of the confessional when there was an object to gain, had a long conversation with the Archduke's ambassador, in which the holy man said that the King had confessed to him that he made the war expressly to cause the Princess to be sent back to France, so that as there could be no more doubt on the subject the father-confessor begged Pecquius, in order to prevent so great an evil, to devise "some prompt and sudden means to induce his Highness the Archduke to order the Princess to retire secretly to her own country."
That night the king dreamed that he was standing before a judge, accompanied by these abbots, who were commanded to scourge him with rods. On awakening he still felt the pain of his flagellation; and being advised by his father-confessor to make amends for his intended cruelty, he immediately granted the abbots a charter for the foundation of the abbey.
But you are going to have your chance to crow over me. Stephen, I've been a more obstinate old fool than you ever thought of being, and I'm going to make you my father-confessor." Then he told him of Allen's development, from the first day he entered the offices of the Consolidated Companies down to the time when he had himself sent the boy away from him in anger.
I don't see that anybody else need worry themselves thin about it." "I'm not thinking of Mr. Pixley. It's " "Ripply-Hair? Well, that's all right! Jolly sight nicer to think about him. I like his eyes too. There's something in them that seems to invite one's confidence. Perhaps you haven't noticed it? If I had a father-confessor which, thank's-be, I haven't, and a jolly good thing for him!
And it's a maxim of universal application: or, at least, of universal practice. I am not come here to play the part of your father-confessor. I am come to serve you." "In what way, Sir?" demanded Trenchard, in astonishment. "You will learn anon. You refuse me your confidence. I applaud your prudence: it is, however, needless.
You went away so sharply that you forgot to say good-bye to the master! if you spoke at all! Whatever did the father-confessor say?" "He gave me very good advice." "Which you are following, madame?" "When one not only has seen death smite another beside one but flit close by oneself, I assure you, girl, it forces one to reflect.
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