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Updated: June 24, 2025
Your name is sufficiently well-known! and I am sorry to tell you so, but it is quite as unpleasant at the Vatican as that of Gys Grandit!" "Gys Grandit is a friend of mine," responded Aubrey composedly, "In fact, I may almost say he is my disciple. I found him working in the fields as a little peasant lad, the love child, or 'bastard, to put it roughly, of some priest whose name he never told me.
I never knew till now who the father of my friend Gys Grandit was; but now that I do know I think the public confession you tell me of, was the only fitting reparation such a man as the Abbe could make to the dead woman who was his wife in the sight of God, as well as to his living son, and the public generally.
At this name, Vergniaud's son Cyrillon stirred, and lifting his dark handsome head turned his flashing eyes full on the speaker. "Did you address me, Monsignor?" he queried, in a voice rich with the musical inflexions of Southern France, "I am Gys Grandit!" Had he fired another pistol shot in the quiet room as he had fired it in the church, it could hardly have created a more profound sensation.
His Church judges him a heretic and castaway for having confessed his sin at last to the people whom he so long deceived, but I for this, judge him as an honest man! And I have some little right to my opinion, for as Gys Grandit I have sought to proclaim the thoughts of many " He paused till the murmur of enthusiasm at mention of the name by which he was known through France should have ceased.
Monsignor Moretti has just left the house, wrapt up in his wrath like a bird of prey in a thunder- cloud, muttering menaces against 'Gys Grandit' the Socialist writer. Now what in the world has Gys Grandit to do with him or with us?
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