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Why should he have cultivated what would have been of little or no use to him? These rural functionaries are just like the people with whom they live. The young seminariste told me an amusing story of a mayor of St. Pantaleon, who had had a very narrow escape of being caught by gendarmes when upon a poaching expedition.
'Gentilhomme, seminariste russe et citoyen du monde civilise! That's better than any...." He jumped up from the sofa and suddenly, with a rapid gesture, snatched up the revolver from the window, ran with it into the next room, and closed the door behind him. Pyotr Stepanovitch stood for a moment, pondering and gazing at the door.
The Apostle, though forewarned, denied his Master on the first alarm of danger; yet that Master, who knew his nature in its strength and its infirmity, chose him for the rock on which He would build His Church." It used to be said of Ernest Renan that he was toniours seminariste, and there is a flavour of the pulpit in these beautiful sentences.
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