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Updated: June 24, 2025
"What is your promise worth?" said Vergniaud with disdain. "Nothing!" replied Gherardi bitterly. "Only in this one special instance it is worth all my life! all my position! You even you, the accursed Gys Grandit! you have me in your power!"
I am a faithful servant of the Church; and the Church is a system of moral government in which, if the slightest laxity be permitted, the whole fabric is in danger " "A house of cards then, which a breath may blow down!" interposed "Gys Grandit," otherwise Cyrillon Vergniaud, "Surely an unstable foundation for the everlasting ethics of Christ!"
Only I am sorry that Felix has made a little mistake in Paris just a little mistake! in that matter of Vergniaud. And it is exceedingly unfortunate that the son should turn out to be Gys Grandit. No wonder the Holy Father is troubled; no wonder! It is a little drama of the age, and will no doubt prove complex in its movement, and worth watching."
When in the few minutes of speech he had had with her she admitted herself to be the mysterious correspondent who had constantly written to him as "Gys Grandit," fervently sympathising with his theories, and urging him on to fresh and more courageous effort, he had been completely overcome, not only with surprise, but also with admiration.
If you can find any point on which, as a servant of Christ, I can denounce these two human beings who share with me the strange and awful privileges of life and death, and the promise of an immortal hereafter, I give you leave to do so. The works of Gys Grandit do not blaspheme Christ, they call, they clamour, they appeal for Christ through all and in all "
What a sensation she will make if she intends to work with her husband as thoroughly and devotedly as her ideas imply! Her marriage will be an immense disappointment to certain persons I could name!" and she smiled, "Dear Sylvie! With all her goodness, and grace and beauty, her name will sound more obnoxious at the Vatican than even the name of Gys Grandit!"
"The position is difficult I admit!" she said, with a returning touch of playfulness "But the very fact of your love for her should give you the force to command her back to life. Come!" She took him into the darkened room where Angela lay inert, immovable, with always the same wide-open eyes, blank with misery and desolation, and said gently, "Angela, will you speak to Gys Grandit?"
To him, though the sayings and opinions of the famous "Gys Grandit" were not exactly new, there was something terrible in hearing him utter them with such bold and trenchant meaning. He sighed, and appeared lost in thought; till Manuel touched him gently on the arm. "Dear friend, are you afraid to bless this man who loves our Father?" "Afraid?
"Who is this ruffian?" he demanded, drawing his tall form up more haughtily than before. "A servant of yours?" "Ay, a servant of his, and of all honest men!" returned Cyrillon. "I am one whom your Church has learned to fear, but who has no fear of you! one whom you have heard of to your cost, and will still hear of, Gys Grandit!"
But I wrote to him long before I knew who he realty was." "Angela! You wrote to him?" "Yes. I admired the writings of Gys Grandit I used to buy all his books as they came out, and study them. I wrote to him as many people will write to a favourite author not in my own name of course to express my admiration, and he answered.
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