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I asked my teacher if it was possible that a disguise could have such an effect on nature and if the shape of the child could follow that of a garment. M. Jerome Coignard advised me not to believe it. "Jacques Tournebroche, my son," he said, "remember always that a good mind repels all that is contrary to reason, except in matters of faith, wherein it is convenient to believe implicitly.
And if Catherine despises me need she render her despisal more cruel by the liking she has for that naughty Friar Ange?" This preference appeared singular to me and I conceived as much surprise as disgust at it. But I was not the disciple of M. Jerome Coignard for nothing. This incomparable teacher had formed my mind to meditate.
"The vintage is finished," he said, "and more abundant than I had hoped for; now let's go and help that poor fellow." I conducted him to my master's bedside and we left him alone with the dying. An hour later he came out again and said: "I can assure you that M. Jerome Coignard dies in admirable sentiments of piety and humility.
"Lucien and his companion, the convict, have succeeded in keeping their footing in the face of the world longer than Coignard did, deriving their income from the prostitution of the said Esther, formerly on the register of the town." Though these notes are to a great extent a repetition of the story already told, it was necessary to reproduce them to show the part played by the police in Paris.
On that night, the night of Epiphany and the nineteenth anniversary of my birth, the sky poured down with the melting snow a cold ill- humour, penetrating to the bone, while an icy wind made the signboard of the Queen Pedauque grate, a clear fire, perfumed by goose grease, sparkled in the shop and the soup steamed in the tureen on the table; round which M. Jerome Coignard, my father and myself were seated.
And now she began to squeak and squeal, and M d'Anquetil left his servants, came up to us, and pushed her into the house, calling her a cheat and a rake, went into the passage behind her, and slammed the door in my face. In the Library with M. Jerome Coignard A Conversation on Morals Taken to M. d'Asterac's Study Salamanders again The Solar Powder A Visit and its Consequences.
Say, did I play well? I am so glad to see you again! She asked me news of M. l'Abbé Coignard, and when I told her my good master had just perished miserably, she burst into tears. She was good enough to inform me of the chief events of her life: "My aunt," she said, "used to mend her laces for Madame de Saint-Remi, who, as you must know, is an admirable actress.
My vexation, however, was not dissipated by my reason, doubtless because it had not its source there. These meditations got me along through the shadows of the night and the mud of the thaw to the road of Saint Germain, where I met M. Jerome Coignard, who was returning home to the Cross of the Sablons after having supped in town.
But, indulgent to others, as to himself, M. Jerome Coignard had a kind smile for my trouble and distraction. "Jacques Tournebroche," he said to me, one day, "are you not struck by the variations in morals during the course of the centuries? The books in this admirable Asteracian collection witness to the uncertainties of mankind on this subject.
In 'Lys Rouge', his greatest novel, he traces the perilously narrow line that separates love from hate; in 'Opinions de M. l'Abbe Jerome Coignard' he has given us the most radical breviary of scepticism that has appeared since Montaigne. 'Le Livre de mon Ami' is mostly autobiographical; 'Clio' contains historical sketches.
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