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Updated: June 25, 2025
Joseph Priedieu, my great-grandfather, built that house to marry his fifth wife in, but the grave claimed him first." So I asked him a riddle. "What is the difference between Kings Port and Newport?" This he, of course, gave up. "Here you are all connected by marriage, and there they are all connected by divorce." "That's true!" he cried, "that's very true.
"Wait," he said, "you are in the mud; I will get you a bundle of straw." He went to fetch the straw and made them a priedieu. Then, looking at his muddy saint and doubtless afraid of bringing discredit on his business, he added: "I will clean him off a little for you." He took a pail of water and a brush and began to scrub the wooden image vigorously, while the two old women kept on praying.
She belonged to him, body and soul, and she had been permitted to call him "her own." At this thought she drew herself up still more haughtily in proud self-consciousness, but, as her glance fell upon the image of the Virgin above the priedieu, she again bowed her head. Doubtless she desired to pray, but she could not. She need confess nothing to the august Queen of Heaven.
She looked at one or two old guide-books till it was bed-time. Then, the last thing at night, a strange gust of thought came upon her just after her prayers. Could she, would she, ever marry again? She knelt on at the priedieu with her fair head bowed, and then there came over her a strong sense of the impossibility of it. The shock she had had was too great, too lasting in its effects.
I caught his hand and pressed it, and a minute afterwards I was alone before Alixe's door. An hour later, knowing Alixe to be alone, I tapped on her door and entered. As I did so she rose from a priedieu where she had been kneeling. Two candles were burning on the mantel, but the room was much in shadow. "What is't you wish?" she asked, approaching.
She belonged to him, body and soul, and she had been permitted to call him "her own." At this thought she drew herself up still more haughtily in proud self- consciousness, but, as her glance fell upon the image of the Virgin above the priedieu, she again bowed her head. Doubtless she desired to pray, but she could not. She need confess nothing to the august Queen of Heaven.
The young man then entered the apartment of Aramis. He found him kneeling before a PRIEDIEU with his head leaning on an open prayer book. He described to him his interview with the cardinal, and said, for the third time drawing his commission from his pocket, "You, our friend, our intelligence, our invisible protector, accept this commission.
It would not do to keep him waiting, and, as she turned back into the room to take the little lamp, her glance again fell upon the Virgin's image above the priedieu and rested upon her head.
Firmly resolved to resign Barbara before his brother Ferdinand reached Ratisbon with his family, he rose from the priedieu and sought his couch. But sleep fled from the anxious ruler; besides, the pain of the gout became more severe. After rising early, he went limping to mass, breakfasted, and began his work.
To withhold from this woman something which would give her fresh happiness and relieve her of sorrow might have afforded her a certain satisfaction. To bless those who curse and despitefully use us was certainly the hardest command; but on the priedieu she vowed to the Virgin to fulfil it, and in a calmer mood than before she bent over the boys to kiss them.
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