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Yes there is no doubt about it, Saint Felix is in trouble! It would be better for him had he never come out of his long retirement. But perhaps he was compelled to look after his Rouen foundling!" A smile flickered faintly over Gherardi's face, but he said not a word in answer.
Strange, very strange!" "We begin our lives in that way," replied Leigh, "We kneel to our mothers!" A slight flush reddened Gherardi's yellow paleness, but he kept his smile well in evidence. "Charmingly expressed very charmingly!" he said suavely, "And so you have met our dear St. Felix! Well, well! And did he tell you all about the wonderful miracle he performed at Rouen?"
"One may cure a sick person then, but one must not pardon a sinner?" suggested Aubrey, "'For whether is it easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or 'Arise and walk? The one is considered a miracle; the other a mistake!" Gherardi's cold eyes glittered. "We will not go into the technicalities of the question," he said frigidly, "We will return to the point from whence we diverged.
He raised his head as he said this, his face expressed mingled agony and fury; but meeting Cyrillon's eyes he shrank again as if he were suddenly whipped by a lash, and with one quick stride, reached the door, and disappeared. There was a moment's silence after his departure. Then Aubrey Leigh spoke. "My dear Grandit! You are a marvellous man! How came you to know Gherardi's secrets?"
"I should have called Katrine, only I knew that if I once did so, she also would be involved, and he would be unscrupulous enough to ruin my name with a few words in order to defend himself from all suspicion. But you, Aubrey? how did it happen that you were here?" "I was here from the first!" he replied triumphantly. "I followed on Gherardi's very heels.
"I cannot think it well for anyone to believe in a lie," said Aubrey slowly, taken aback despite himself by Gherardi's sudden gentleness, "There is a magnificent simplicity in truth; truth which, the more it is tested, the truer it proves. Where is there any necessity of falsehood? Surely the marvels of nature could be explained with as much ease as the supposed miracles of a Saint?"
"You know perfectly or you should that a wife's duty is to obey her husband, and that in future HIS Church, not yours, must be hers also." "Surely you speak in riddles?" said Gherardi, preserving his suave equanimity. "Mr. "Then I have none!" replied Sylvie. There was a moment's silence. A black rage began to kindle in Gherardi's soul, rage all the more intense because so closely suppressed.
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