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Updated: May 4, 2025
'Jacques, I said, 'what is that verse you have added to your prayers! Come, my friend, why should you keep it from me? 'It is nothing, mon pere, nothing. he replied. But again I urged him to tell me; more to pass away the time than from any real interest. 'Come, I said, 'it may be your last chance. Who knows but that I may be drowned on my way back to the Chenaux?
Small respect had they for the little Roman Catholic church beyond the old Agency garden; its German priest they refused to honor; but, when stately old Father Piret came over to the island from his hermitage in the Chenaux, they ran to meet him, young and old, and paid him reverence with affectionate respect.
He seems to be well provided with money; his little house in the Chenaux contains foreign books and pictures, and he is very charitable to the poor Indians. But he keeps himself aloof, and seems to desire no intercourse with the world beyond his letters and papers, which come regularly, some of them from France.
During those long hours, when the next moment might have brough death, this old man and I were together; and when at last the cold dawn came, and the disabled steamer slowly ploughed through the angry water around the point, and showed us Mackinac in the distance, we discovered that the island was a mutual friend, and that we knew each other, at least by name; for the silver-haired priest was Father Piret, the hermit of the Chenaux.
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