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After his passage had been engaged, however, Father Pamphile was smitten with an attack of typhus fever, and found himself unable to answer the call to foreign service when the time came. Now Joseph was even more ardent than his brother, and he burned to answer this call himself, although he was not yet a priest.
As a matter of fact all three finally entered the service of the Church a girl named Pauline who entered a convent and two brothers, Auguste and Joseph, who became respectively Father Pamphile and Father Damien.
Du Bouchage, therefore, passed through all the apartments until he reached the garden, a true garden of a Roman prelate, luxurious in its shade, coolness, and perfume, such as, at the present day, may be found at the Villa Pamphile or the Palais Borghese.
"I drunk!" said Caderousse; "well that's a good one! I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks. Pere Pamphile, more wine!" and Caderousse rattled his glass upon the table. "You were saying, sir" said Fernand, awaiting with great anxiety the end of this interrupted remark. "What was I saying? I forget.
Such a man would be with difficulty brought to surrender his prize. Again, there was his love for me. 'Pater est, Pamphile; difficile est. How was this vast conceit of a not unreal paternal love to be encountered? The sense of honour and of decency might appeal to him personally; would either of them get a hearing if he fancied them to be standing in opposition to my dearest interests?
In Paris Joseph served as a novice and when this term was ended he went to Louvain where his brother was already a priest in holy orders, having adopted the name of Father Pamphile. Joseph himself planned to take the name of Father Damien.
Father Pamphile received orders to go to the Sandwich Islands and engage in missionary work. He was delighted, for this work appealed to him and he felt that he could serve his Church better in that far country than by remaining in Louvain where he had his parish.
One of the first spots which the Frenchmen visited bore evidences of a ghastly tragedy. It was surmised and with some plausibility that here had perished some portion of the ill-fated following of Pamphile de Narvaez. Another island, farther to the west, chiefly impressed the visitors by the great number of animals, of a species new to them, which they found there.
Such a man would be with difficulty brought to surrender his prize. Again, there was his love for me. 'Pater est, Pamphile; difficile est. How was this vast conceit of a not unreal paternal love to be encountered? The sense of honour and of decency might appeal to him personally; would either of them get a hearing if he fancied them to be standing in opposition to my dearest interests?
That very evening, Hesperus had scarcely risen from his bed when Fotis knocked at the door of the house. 'Come hither, and quickly, she said; and without stopping to question her Apuleius hastened by her side to the dwelling of the witch Pamphile. Entering softly, they crept along a dark passage, where they could peep through a crack in the wall and see Pamphile at work.
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