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Of this priest it might truly be said, as was said of the priest of Thiers in the Forez, that chance had made him a choir-boy, but destiny had designed him for the profession of arms; and upon this one could build an interesting comedy of how chance and destiny are perpetually at issue, and how chance, having more initiative and not being so bound to routine, gets the better of destiny upon all occasions whatsoever.
The Ursuline Nuns have in their garden some Roman baths, but we having the misfortune to be men, they did not think proper to admit us. Hard by are eight arches of a most magnificent aqueduct, said to be erected by Antony, when his legions were quartered here. There are many other parts of it dispersed up and down the country, for it brought the water from a river many leagues off in La Forez.
Its line against the sky is also one: no critical height in Europe is so strict and unbroken. You may see it from a long way east from the Velay, or even from the last of the Forèz, and wonder whether it is a land or a sullen bar of black cloud. All the world knows how snow, even in mere gullies and streaks, uplifts a mountain.
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