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She was silent for some few minutes, and Mathias grew anxious. What could be going forward? He would vastly like to know. Unable to control his curiosity, he peeped out, and then he saw pretty Marietta's portrait in the long looking-glass panel. She looked prettier than ever now, for, shocking to relate, the young lady was undressing. Mathias was not to say a bashful man, so he did not draw back.
"What," demanded the governor, "fastening them to the gaoler?" "Yes." "I only order it in special cases, such as that of Mathias." "He is then very dangerous?" "Well, I scarcely believe that, only such precautions are the established rules." "I regret that." "Why?" "Partly on the score of humanity," was the reply. "Ah, you would be too tender-hearted," said the governor. "No.
Mathias Corvin favored Jean de Monroyal, the ornament of mathematics. Now, 'tis an ill way to protect letters to hang men of letters. What a stain on Alexander if he had hung Aristoteles! This act would not be a little patch on the face of his reputation to embellish it, but a very malignant ulcer to disfigure it. Sire!
It was about three months after this conversation that Amine and Philip were again seated upon the mossy bank which we have mentioned, and which had become their favourite resort. Father Mathias had contracted a great intimacy with Father Seysen, and the two priests were almost as inseparable as were Philip and Amine.
Eleazar, too, has asked; but I have refused them always, knowing well whither their curiosity would lead them. Lest, Mathias interposed, they bring back the spirit and sense of women with them.
His memory of Mathias was as partial; but he knew the president's full face, and while pondering on it he remembered that he had never seen him in profile. Nor was this all that set the two men apart in Joseph's consciousness. The prior's simple and homely language came from the heart, entered the heart and was remembered, whereas Mathias spoke from his brain.
He fell to considering the question afresh, and forgetful of Mathias's admonitions that the business of man is to meditate on the nature of God he said: the Essenes perform no miracles and do not prophesy; an interruption to Mathias's loquacity which the other took with a better grace than Joseph had expected for no one ever dared before to interrupt Mathias.
The odious struggle in which the material welfare of a family had been so perilously near destruction was to the two notaries nothing more than a matter of professional polemics. "I haven't been forty years in harness for nothing," remarked Mathias. "Look here, Solonet," he added, "I'm a good fellow; you shall help in drawing the deeds for the sale of those lands." "Thanks, my dear Mathias.
The deputy realized that this was one of those gentry who stick to you like a leech and that there was nothing for it but to submit. In a rather bantering tone, he asked: "Does your thinking enable you to tell us the exact spot where M. Mathias de Gorne is at this moment?" Renine took out his watch and answered: "In Paris, Mr. Deputy." "In Paris? Alive then?"
The materials at my disposal are abundant and not less trustworthy than abundant. My account is based chiefly on the communications made to me by a number of the master's pupils notably, Madame Dubois, Madame Rubio, M. Mathias, and Gutmann and on Mikuli's excellent preface to his edition of Chopin's works.
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