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Updated: June 26, 2025
At last a couple of carrier pigeons flew into the city, which brought the intelligence that the prince had cut the dikes, and sent Admiral Boiset to their relief when the rising waters should drive the Spaniards away. But the waters did not rise high enough to enable the admiral to approach, and the people prayed to Heaven for help. It came.
"It is a scarecrow one that scares the crows of hell who seek to pick out the souls of the innocent, like you, Madame Jezebel." Madame uttered a voluminous oath in some strange tongue, and sprang to her feet with an agility surprising in one so stout. "Say, who are you?" she ejaculated in French, confronting him. "I am the Pasteur Boiset who accompany my ward to pay this little call, Madame."
When he had mastered enough French in which Madame and Juliette proved efficient instructors, he propounded it to the old Pasteur, who clapped his hand upon a Bible, and said: "There is the answer, young friend." "I know," replied Godfrey, "but it does not quite satisfy; I feel that I must find that answer for myself." Monsieur Boiset removed his blue spectacles and looked at him.
Whoever he had met in his visions, the Pasteur Boiset was not one of them. Never, asleep or waking, had he seen anyone in the least like him. The clergyman peered at Godfrey, studying him from head to foot. "Mon Dieu!" he exclaimed, "I understood he was quite, quite leetle, not a big young man who will eat much and want many things.
In these conclusions Godfrey was strengthened by two circumstances; first, his reading, especially of Buddhistic literature, that enjoins them so strongly, and in which he found a great deal to admire, and secondly, by the entire concurrence of the Pasteur Boiset, whom he admired even more than he did Buddhistic literature.
Monsieur Boiset waddled forward, with a gait like to that of a superannuated duck, followed at some distance by Godfrey and the stalwart Jean with the luggage. "My dears," he called out in his high voice, "I have found our new little friend; the train brought him safely. Here he is." Madame and Juliette looked about them. "I see him not," said Madame.
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