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On the Abbe's return he told me very harshly that I should act in a manner quite contrary to the King's wishes if I again obtained such a favour; that the wealth of the Church was for the future to be invariably devoted to the support of the poorer nobility; that it was the interest of the State that it should be so; and a plebeian priest, happy in a good curacy, had only to remain curate.
The resemblance between his sketch and Cleveland Abbe's drawing of the corona of 1878 is extremely striking. Thus, the coincidence of epochs is imperfect.
Isn't it doing good when we prevent evil?" Some persons may wish for a sketch of this figure, remarkable for the fact that science and literature had filled the heart and passed through the strong head without corrupting either. At sixty years of age the abbe's hair was white as snow, so keenly did he feel the sorrows of others, and so heavily had the events of the Revolution weighed upon him.
There were frogs in a rainwater tank constructed many years ago, when some enterprising foe had been known to cut off the water-supply of a besieged chateau, and their friendly croak brought a sense of company and comfort to the Abbe's timid soul.
M. Tripeaud, who, no longer sustained by the abbe's presence, dreaded the young lady as he did fire, was not sorry for this diversion. To keep up appearances, he stationed himself before one of the sacred pictures, and began again to contemplate it, as if there were no bounds to his admiration.
"You would not doubt it," insisted de Buxieres, provoked at the Abbe's incredulous movements of his head, "if you had seen her, as I saw her, melt into tears when I told her of Sejournant's death. She did not even wait until I had turned my back before she broke out in her lamentations. My presence was of very small account. Ah! she has but too cruelly made me feel how little she cares for me!"
"Especially if one has a genius for it, eh, sir?" said I. "Besides, too," said my uncle, ironically, "you have had the Abbe's instructions." "Ay, and if the priests would communicate to their pupils their experience in frailty, as well as in virtue, how wise they would make us!" "Ods fish! Morton, you are quite oracular. How got you that fancy of priests? by observation in life already?"
The doctor, sitting at the moment on a bench outside the Chinese pagoda, felt the pressure of the abbe's hand on his. "Yes, abbe, every time she talks to me of God I shall send her to her friend 'Shapron," he said, imitating Ursula's infant speech, "I wish to see whether religious sentiment is inborn or not.
He had enraged the Abbe as much as he had delighted the Abbe's brother; for nothing gave the Seigneur such pleasure as the discomfiture of the Abbe Rossignol, chaplain and ordinary to the Archbishop of Quebec. The genial, sympathetic nature of the Seigneur could not even be patient with the excessive piety of the churchman, who, in rigid righteousness, had thrashed him cruelly as a boy.
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