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I was up here as I am now and the moonlight was around me as it is now and I thought that just behind the wing of that third angel's head carved yonder do you see? and he got up and made me get up too, and turned me round with his hand on my shoulder 'a white dove had made its resting-place. Is there a white dove there, Lapui?
"Then why does not everyone remember that, and try to save one another rather than to condemn?" asked Manuel suddenly. They had reached the bottom of the tower stairway, and old Jean Lapui, shading his eyes from the glare of the daylight with one wrinkled hand, looked at the boy with a smile of compassionate interest. "Why does not everyone remember? Why does not everyone do as He did?
And they worshipped the goddess of Reason Reason, impersonated by Maillard the ballet- dancer! True to the life, my Lapui! that kind of worship has lasted in Paris until now! it goes on still Reason, man's idea of Reason, impersonated by a ballet dancer! Yes, the shops are full of that goddess and her portraits, Jean Lapui!
Ah, Monseigneur! he had said good-night indeed, and gone home!" "You mean that he flung himself from this parapet?" said Bonpre, in a low, horrified tone. "That was the way of it, Monseigneur," said Lapui commiseratingly, "His body was found next day crushed to bits on the pavement below; but somehow no one troubled much about it, or thought he had thrown himself from the tower of Notre Dame.
"Heaven bless you, no, Monseigneur!" replied Lapui cheerfully, "For is not the whole world kept going by lies? Dear me, if we all told the truth there would be an end of everything!
In seventeen ninety-three there was not much of our Lord or the blessed Saints in it. 'No, you are right, Lapui! he cried, 'Down came the statue of the Virgin, and up went the statue of Liberty! There was the crimson flare of the Torch of Truth! and the effigies of the ape Voltaire and the sensualist Rousseau, took the places of St. Peter and St. Paul! Ha!
'Ha, my Lapui! he said, 'Is it not droll that this should be all a lie! All this fine building, and all the other fine buildings of the kind in Paris! Strange, my Lapui, is it not, that this Cathedral should be raised to the worship of a God whom no one obeys, or even thinks of obeying! All show, my good Lapui!
They know they are telling lies themselves all day and every day. Some of them pretend to believe, because they think it best to be on the safe side even by feigning, and they are the worst hypocrites. It drives me mad, Lapui, to perform Mass for liars! If it were only unbelievers! but liars! liars!
'Presently presently; he said, 'if I may tell you something first! 'Do so by all means, reverend pere, said I, and I sat down near him. 'It is just this, Lapui, and he drew out a crucifix from his breast and looked at it very earnestly, 'I am a priest, as you see; and this symbol represents my faith.
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