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So that hereafter they shall look back on their present pains, not only with indifference but with thankfulness. But ah! where shall then the unrighteous and sinner appear?" "You seem to have a natural gift for preaching," said La Croissette, after a pause. "Where will they appear, say you?
I sank down on the straw they had prepared for me, and never was couch of down more grateful to a luxurious man than this poor pallet to me. La Croissette viewed the whole party with keenness, then, putting his bottle to my lips, said, "Take this; there's a little left." Whatever it was, it revived me; and then he nodded, said "Bon soir," and went away.
"Thanks be to God, He does not require us to dwell on what may be in store for our chastening. He says explicitly, 'Take no thought for the morrow the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Words how kind and how wise!" This seemed to strike La Croissette a good deal. He remained in thought a few minutes, and then said, "Well, it is time I should take my leave.
"It seems so, though it is not so," said I. "But don't you perceive in this a grand argument in favor of a future life?" "I am no scholar, I; you must explain it to me," said La Croissette.
"Better, my dear friend, than the captives of old had in this very dungeon. And now, what news? Where have you been?" "I'd better go; I'm not wanted." muttered La Croissette, heard only by me, and then retiring. "I bring the worst of news," returned M. Bourdinave, sitting down. "The Edict of Nantes is revoked." "Ah!" and a general cry broke from us.
Better had it been to suffer affliction for a season. "So the virtuous lady his wife thought," said La Croissette. "She escaped in the disguise of a servant, and is now wandering in the open fields." "Ah, what sorrow! May the good Lord support her under it!" "Ay, and the many other women who are in similar case.
'Alas! replied he, 'I look for no rest on this side heaven; and may God grant that its doors may not be closed against me by this act." "Poor old man! poor Monsieur Laccassagne!" ejaculated my father. "Well might he say so." "Yes, but what reasonable person can suppose the doors of heaven will be closed against him by it?" said La Croissette. "The Lord is a God of mercy "
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