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Updated: June 18, 2025
Brother Archangias, still busy at his psalm-singing, winked and nodded in the direction of the dozing priest. 'What's the matter? asked La Teuse. The Brother replied by a yet more significant wink. 'Well, what do you mean? Can't you speak? Ah! there's a king. That's capital! so I take your queen.
She simply said as they entered the dining-room: 'I have had such a good sleep; but you have been talking too much, and have made yourself quite pale. In the evening, after dinner, Brother Archangias came in to have his game of cards with La Teuse.
But he succeeded in seizing Catherine and one boy by the ears and led them back towards the village, clutching them tightly with his big hairy fingers, and overwhelming them with abuse. The priest walked on again. Brother Archangias sometimes aroused strange scruples in his mind.
'There, look there! cried Brother Archangias, pointing to a group of children playing at the bottom of a ravine, 'there are my young devils, who play the truant under pretence of going to help their parents among the vines! You may be certain that jade of a Catherine is among them.... There, didn't I tell you! Till to-night, Monsieur le Cure. Oh, just you wait, you rascals!
La Teuse, after overwhelming him with questions, broke out into indignant exclamations, while Brother Archangias clenched his fists and brandished them aloft. 'May Heaven crush him! said he, 'and burn both him and his witch! In his turn the Abbe then endeavoured to elicit some fresh particulars about the people at the Paradou, and listened intently to the Brother's monstrous narrative.
'Has any one come yet? asked Abbe Mouret. 'Oh, the girls have been outside a long time with armfuls of boughs. I am just going to light the lamps. We can begin whenever you like. A few seconds later she could be heard swearing in the sacristy because the matches were damp. Brother Archangias, who remained alone with the priest, sourly inquired: 'For the month of Mary, eh?
He thought of all the roughness of Brother Archangias, of his refusal to worship Mary, of the distrustful glances with which he had seemed to watch her. He himself despaired of ever rising to such a height of roughness, and so he simply left her, hiding her images and deserting her altar. Yet she remained in his heart, like some love which, though unavowed, is ever present.
'There is a tomtit's nest in the brambles there, under that rock. For over ten days I've been watching it, and now the little ones are hatched, so I came this morning after serving your mass. 'A tomtit's nest! exclaimed Brother Archangias. 'Wait a bit! wait a bit! Thereupon he stepped aside, picked a clod of earth off a grave and flung it into the brambles. But he missed the nest.
The Brother hurled his cards upon the table. Whenever he cried out the windows shook sonorously. La Teuse at last seemed to be winning. She had secured three aces for some time already, and was casting longing eyes at the fourth. But Brother Archangias began to indulge in fresh outbursts of gaiety. He pushed up the table, at the risk of breaking the lamp.
But from a brightly lighted house at the far end, near the mill, there still came sounds of merriment. While keeping the best rooms for his own use, old Bambousse had given a corner of his house to his daughter and son-in-law. They were all assembled there, drinking a last glass, while waiting for the priest. 'They are drunk, growled Brother Archangias. 'Don't you hear the row they are making?
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