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She passed on altogether across the bridge, in order that she might reach the spot she desired without observation and perhaps also with some halting idea that she might thus postpone the evil moment. The figure of St John Nepomucene rested on the other balustrade of the bridge, and she was minded to stand for a while under its shadow.
According to him, Brother Nepomucene would be the second of that name placed in the front rank of the heavenly host by virtue of the canons of the Church. The next day the abbe was summoned to the convent by a special messenger, and had an interview with the Trappist. To his great surprise, he found that the enemy had changed his tactics.
"Without Madame Cartier who supplies me with milk and eggs and herbs I couldn't manage it. You ought to go and see their establishment, monsieur. Ha! it's fine! They employ five journeymen gardeners, and Nepomucene goes there in summer to draw water for them; they hire him of me as a waterer. They make lots of money out of melons and strawberries.
That is all, roughly speaking, which was known of John Nepomucene, Count Spicca, by the society in which he had spent more than half his life. Orsino, watching the pale and melancholy face, compared himself with his companion, and wondered whether any imaginable series of events could turn him into such a man at the same age. Yet he admired Spicca, besides respecting him.
The Princess Amelia, dressed in a simple robe of white watered silk, wore, like the Archduchess Sophia, the grand cordon of the Imperial Order of Saint Nepomucene, which had been recently sent her by the empress.
Far from attempting to wheedle him like myself, he told him that he wished to have nothing to do with this business, that he washed his hands of it, and that he would confine himself to conveying the decisions on both sides, and affording a refuge to Brother Nepomucene, partly out of Christian charity, and partly to edify his monks by the example of a truly devout man.
As for the incarceration, I will put him in the Conciergerie." "Thank you, monsieur," said the unhappy Bourlac. With the words he fell rigid on the snow, and rolled into one of the hollows round the trees of the boulevard. The commissary of police called for help, and Nepomucene ran up, together with Madame Vauthier.
He himself took the two crocks of water, carried them into the first of his rooms, in which were many pots of flowers, and returned to speak to the gardener, carefully closing the door behind him. Godefroid's door was open, for Nepomucene had begun his trips, and was stacking the wood in the front room.
The Church teaches us that by great sacrifices and rich offerings we may cleanse our souls of the blackest sins. Brother Nepomucene, a prey to holy fear, believes that a public expiation is necessary for his salvation. Like a devout martyr, he wishes to satisfy the implacable justice of men with blood.
"'I say, Nepomucene, rejoined the other, 'do you fancy that you would get off scot-free if I were caught and tried? "'Why not? answered the Trappist. 'I had no hand in your folly, nor did I advise anything of this kind. "'Ha! ha! my fine apostle! cried Antony, throwing himself back in his chair in a fit of laughter. 'You are glad enough about it, now that it is done.
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