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"The relief came duly; and in this frame of mind a little sly, but more than three parts triumphant he returned to Ile Lezan and was made welcome as something of a hero. The smell of nets drying and of flowers in the gardens, the faces on the quay, and the handshakes, and the first church-going they all count. But to Lucien these things were for once as little compared with the secret he carried.
"But I reckon it . . . Tenez, that will be Ile Vierge there, with the lighthouse standing white as it were, beneath the cliffs; but the cliffs belong in fact to the mainland. . . . And now in a few minutes we come abreast of my parish the Ile Lezan. . . . See, see!" He caught my arm as the tide raced us down through the Passage du Four. "My church how her spire stands up!"
Leaving Lezan, he went up to Ashita, where he became the guest of a priest, reported to be the most learned of living Nestorians, who had spent twenty years in copying, in beautiful style, the few works of Nestorian literature; but even he had not an entire Bible. He was electrified by Dr. Grant's account of the press, that could do his twenty years' work in a less number of hours.
Once while I argued, here in Ile Lezan, an old man asked me, 'But, Father, if it were not for such chances, why should any man choose to dwell by the sea? If, monsieur, you lived among them and knew their hardships, you would see some rude sense in that question.
"I have seen you English at home. If monsieur, who is on tour, could only spare the time to visit me on Ile Lezan!" My friend the Cure greeted me with something not far short of ecstasy.
"A few instants later several dragoons, amongst whom I recognised none but MM. Lezan du Pontet, Paris junior, and Boudon, accompanied by a great number of the militia, entered, demanding that the red flag should be brought out. They tried to open the door of the council hall, and finding it locked, they called upon me for the key.
Though the flame of vital piety was almost quenched on their altars, his faith anticipated the day when those glens would reëcho the glad praises of God; and down he sped, over cliffs and slippery ledges, to the large village of Lezan, on the banks of the noisy Zab.
This meant that Lucien less than ever could afford to buy; and there are no money-lenders on Ile Lezan. The letter came as he was on the point of departing for another six weeks on Ile Ouessant: and that evening the lovers' feet took them to the nest they had so often dreamed of furnishing. There is no prettier cottage on the island I will show it to you on our way back.
There was much talk in the newspapers afterwards concerning the honesty of our poor Bretons, who pillaged none of the dead, but gave up whatever they found. The relatives and the great shipping company subscribed a fund, of which a certain small portion came even to Ile Lezan to be administered by me. "The poor lady with the necklaces?
From the roof depended three or four rudely carved ships, hung there ex voto by parishioners preserved from various perils of the deep. He narrated their histories at length. "The roof leaks," he said, "but we are to remedy that. At length the blessed Mary of Lezan will be housed, if not as befits her, at least not shamefully."
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