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I fear that we must strive very hard against the Sweet Jesus. We will strive, said Ridoux. And we will employ every means. Go, dear Abbé, hasten to Monseigneur's, he is warned of your visit, and before entering on the struggle, it is well to reconnoitre the ground. Go, I have good hopes that we shall have St. Marie. Thus Marcel found himself enlisted, in spite of himself. The Curé of St.
I intend to believe it. I ask nothing better than to oblige my old friend Ridoux by doing something for you. Sit down. We are in want of priests, that is to say, intelligent, hard-working, active priests, on whom we can absolutely rely. Times are becoming difficult. Evil doctrines are spreading. Faith is passing away.
Monsieur Ridoux was a very good fellow, but he was not handsome. A big nose, a big belly, blinking eyes, an enormous mouth, hair on end, the arm of a chimpanzee, and the legs of a Greenlander. At first sight, he gave me the impression of a monkey with young. But what is a man's outward form?
If you are not converted yet, here are two gentlemen who will undertake your conversion. Well, I ask for nothing better, she answered laughing; and addressing herself to Marcel: Will you take my band-box for me? He took the box, and at the same time offered his hand to help her to get up. She leant on it prettily; and bowing to him, and to Ridoux also, she sat down beside Marcel.
"And then," whispered Monsieur Ridoux in the ear of sceptics, "if the touching of these blessed bones produces no benefit, you are sure it will do no harm, and you cannot say the same of your doctor's drugs." John Lateran; it is also at St. James of Compostelia in Spain; at Anvers; in the Abbey of St.
But if he had complained, it would have been very hard, and everybody in the diocese, from Monseigneur the Bishop to his sexton, would have risen with indignation and called him, "Ungrateful wretch." For Ridoux was favoured above all his colleagues; above all his colleagues Divine Providence bad overwhelmed him with its favours. The relics of a saint.
I am afraid of soiling one day the robe which I wear, I am afraid of becoming an object of shame and compassion. Ah, I am unhappy. Here we are, cried Ridoux. Speak. The only point is to understand one another. "Ah, my friend, have not all young people ridiculous passions?
Ah, my dear uncle, good father Ridoux, sleep, sleep in peace. How greatly am I your debtor for what you have done for me, unwittingly and in spite of yourself; for, have you not, by urging me to drink more than is my custom, in order to draw my secret from me, given me the courage to undertake what I should never have dared to dream of? Audaces fortuna juvat. Oh, Providence! Providence!
Is it not Monsieur l'Abbé Gaudinet? said Marcel rising. Ah, cried the former, Monsieur le Curé of Althausen, I think? It was the Secretary, and he aspired, as may be remembered, to the envied post of curate at St. Nicholas. He thought to obtain the good graces of Ridoux by rendering a service to Marcel. Monseigneur is really too much engaged, said he, but I will obtain admittance for you anyhow.
And since it is agreed between us that, no more than others, can we avoid certain necessities of nature.... -Alas, alas, human infirmity! Omnia vincit amor, et nos cadamus amori. Then.... Then, we choose our company; for instance, that pretty girl there. And Ridoux leant his head out of the door. They had just reached Vic, where they changed horses.
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