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Updated: April 30, 2025
After this, still greater crowds flocked to the grotto of Massabielle, and again the authorities interfered. MM. Massy and Jacomet for a long time waged their war with the people until the emperor telegraphed, ordering that all interference should be stopped.
"I'm not very bright to-day. I think it was the sirocco of yesterday that has upset me a little, that's all." Then, while they were seated at table, Dorise suddenly exclaimed: "Oh! do you know, mother, that young French lady over yonder, Madame Jacomet, has just told me something.
M. Jacomet plied her with questions and cross-questions, and used all his power to implicate her in some inconsistency or contradiction; but his efforts were futile, and he was obliged to confess that he could not make out any case against the child, whom he allowed to go home.
About this time, so great had become the popular excitement over the child, the attention of the authorities was attracted by it. Accordingly, M. Massy, prefect of the commune, and M. Jacomet, commissaire de police, conferred together, and decided to arrest Bernadette as an impostor.
There's a whisper that the mysterious woman, Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo, was shot during the night by a discarded lover!" "Shot!" exclaimed Lady Ranscomb. "Dear me! How very dreadful. What really happened?" "I don't know. Madame Jacomet was told by her husband, who heard it in Ciro's this morning." "How terrible!" remarked Hugh, striving to remain calm. "Yes.
Soubirons kept his daughter at home for a day or two: then, observing her to grieve under the restraint, decided to risk the wrath of M. Jacomet, and allowed her to go where she wished. The people upheld Soubirons, and the crowds at the grotto assembled again.
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