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Alyoshka shuddered, and pressed his face to the coachman's back so as not to see the windows. "At first the General's lady would not listen," continued the old man. "'All this is your fancy, you simple folk have such notions, she said. 'A dead man cannot howl. Some time afterwards the watchmen came to her again, and with them the sacristan. So the sacristan, too, had heard him howling.
"I saw him twice speaking with the sacristan mayor," observed a girl. "It couldn't have been to confess himself or to order a mass!" The neighbors gathered together and a large circle surrounded the corpse which was still swinging. In half an hour some officers and two cuaderilleros arrived. They took the body down and put it in a wheelbarrow.
I have caught you, my dear colleague," cried Sulpice, very much amused at Pichereau's embarrassed air, his coat buttoned close like a Quaker's and his little eyes blinking behind his spectacles, and looking as sheepish as a sacristan caught napping. "Me?" stammered Pichereau. "Me? But my dear Minister, it's you yes, you whom I came expressly to seek!" "Here?" said Vaudrey. "Yes, here!" "Really?"
"And who will take her present place?" "A sacristan," answered White; "a sacristan in a cotta. Do you like the short cotta or the long?" he continued, turning to the younger lady. "I?" answered Miss Charlotte; "I always forget, but I think you told us the Roman was the short one; I'm for the short cotta."
There was one other exception; for overhead, against the half-lighted apse, where a belated sacristan still moved about, himself a shadow, busy with the last preparations of the High Altar there burgeoned out the ominous silhouette of the vast hanging cross, but so dark that the tortured Christ upon it was invisible.... Yet surely that was right on this night, for who, of all those who were to adore presently the Child of joy, gave a thought to the Man of Sorrows?
When the Sacristan had got to a certain distance, therefore, Cortado followed, and having overtaken him as he was mounting the steps of a church, he took him apart, and poured forth so interminable a string of rigmarole, all about the theft of the purse, and the prospect of recovering it, that the poor Sacristan could do nothing but listen with open mouth, unable to make head or tail of what he said, although he made him repeat it two or three times.
Then, as if he had made up his mind, he began again. "I ought not to be ashamed of the history of my grievances. If any one had been in my place, he would have had the same story to tell. As I was saying, I began well. Several days later the priest, who was then Father Dámaso, sent the sacristan mayor to tell me that he wanted to see me.
The priest read the mass; Clery responded as sacristan; and even while the king was receiving the elements, the sound of the drums and trumpets was heard without, which awakened Paris that morning and told the city that the King of France was being led to his execution.
The master-surgeon, the atheist at heart, the worshiper by chance. The mystery was greater than ever; the regularity of the phenomenon complicated it. When Desplein had left, Bianchon went to the sacristan, who took charge of the chapel, and asked him whether the gentleman were a constant worshiper.
Did the senior sacristan lie?" "They said that they would meet here," thought the second shadow. "Some mischief must be on foot when the two brothers conceal it from me." At length the first shadow reached the gateway of the cemetery. The three who were already there stepped forward. "Is that you?" "Is that you?" "We must scatter, for they've followed me.
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