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The travellers separated. The young girl with her small amount of luggage directed her steps in all confidence towards the inn which the old member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul had acquainted her with, while Ridoux and Marcel took their way to the Place d'Alliance, where resided the Comtesse de Montluisant.
I should have eaten it yesterday, but I preferred to keep it for to-day; you see I have done a good action, she added laughing. I see that the Sisters were very kind to you. Yes, sir, they have converted me, they made me confess and take the Communion, which I had not done for a long time. That is well, said Ridoux. The diligence had started again.
Ah, ah, you are laughing, you are laughing. You see you cannot look at me without laughing. "I allow that it is necessary to be virtuous in order to be happy, but I assert that it is necessary to be happy in order to be virtuous." They sat down to table. It was an excellent meal, and the worthy Ridoux tried to make it cheerful, but a vague feeling of sorrow oppressed Marcel.
What happiness for a poor old man, like me, when I hear them say: "Monsieur Ridoux, I have just seen your nephew, Monseigneur Marcel, go by." I shall answer then: "It is I, however, who have made him, who have formed him, his Right-Reverence." You will give me your patronage, will you not?
The child stopped short, and sadly put on his cap again. Poor little fellow, said the dancer. And she threw him the other half of the pie. Ridoux thought he saw an offensive meaning in this quite spontaneous action, for he cried angrily: Would you tell us then, Mademoiselle, that you have taken the Communion? No doubt it was with that piece of meat. Why, sir?
Poor things, murmured the player; no doubt, among the number there are some who cannot work. There, said Ridoux, is where the old order of things is ever to be lamented. Formerly there were convents which fed all the beggars, while now these starving creatures will soon eat us all up. Ah, it makes the heart bleed to see such misery. And he took a pinch of snuff.
I will send one of those brutes of whom I have just been speaking. Well, go; you can tell the Abbé Ridoux that you will have the cure. Come again to-morrow. I even think it will be useless for you to return to Althausen. "I turned my head and I saw a number of the dead in living bodies.
But he gave only a partial attention; his thoughts were absorbed in his inmost preoccupations. Now and again only did he let fall a few observations in reply: "How horrible," or "How shocking," or again: "How abominable!" Ridoux did not appear at first to pay attention to his nephew's gloomy thoughts. He laughed and joked all alone, but he did not miss a mouthful. Old priests are generally greedy.
He was changed, another put in his place at Althausen. He had hoped for opposition, he had counted on objections from the Bishop, he thought, in short, that he would remain in suspense for some weeks, perhaps for some months, during which he would have the time to look before him and reflect; but no, all at once: "Go and tell the Abbé Ridoux that you have the cure." Well, and Suzanne?
Zulma caught his look, and blushed. Where are you going to stay at Nancy? The gentleman who paid my fare, gave me also the address of a house where I can rest for a day or two while I am waiting for news from my company: the Hôtel du Cygne de la Croix. I know it, said Ridoux who had just woke up, it is a respectable house, the best which a young person like you could meet with.
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