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To that end, they sent two emissaries to the Neutral towns, who, calling the chiefs and young warriors to a council, denounced the Jesuits as destroyers of the human race, and made their auditors a gift of nine French hatchets on condition that they would put them to death. Chaumonot records yet another miracle.
Father Chaumonot frowned from his chair and would have risen but for the restraining hand of Bouchard, who, like all seamen, was fond of gallantry. "Monsieur," replied the black mask, coldly and impudently, "we are indeed alone; and upon the strength of this assertion, will you not resume your conversation with yonder gentlemen and allow my companion and myself to continue ours?"
Read me of Ulysses when he finally arrived at Ithaca and found Penelope still faithful." "Monsieur," said Chaumonot, who overheard the request, "would you not rather I should read to you from the life of Loyola?" "No, Father," gently; "I am still pagan enough to love the thunder of Homer." "If only I might convince you of the futility of such books!" earnestly.
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