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Amine sat down, and burst into tears. Her husband was attempting to console her, when Father Seysen knocked at the door. Philip hastened down to open it. "Good morning, my son. How is the sufferer?" "He has ceased to suffer, father." "Indeed!" replied the good priest, with sorrow in his countenance; "am I then too late? yet have I not tarried."
Well, then, let us wait for a new sign of the divine will if so it must be;" and Philip walked on, occasionally thinking on the arguments of Father Seysen, and oftener thinking of Amine. It was now evening, and the sun was fast descending. Philip wandered on, until at last he arrived at the very spot where he had knelt down and pronounced his solemn vow.
"Amine, we are free agents, and to a certain extent are permitted to direct our own destinies." "Ay, so would Father Seysen fain have made me believe; but what he said in support of his assertion was to me incomprehensible. And yet he said that it was a part of the Catholic faith. It may be so I am unable to understand many other points. I wish your faith were made more simple.
Philip replied not; and, absorbed in their own meditations, they walked back in silence to the cottage. Although Philip had made up his own mind, he immediately sent the Portuguese priest to summon Father Seysen, that he might communicate with them and take their opinion as to the summons he had received.
"Holy father! is it possible?" replied the woman. Amine made no reply, but went to bed; but Father Mathias heard all that passed as he paced the room below. The next day he called upon Father Seysen, and communicated to him what had occurred, and the false suspicions of Amine. "You have acted hastily," replied Father Seysen, "to visit a woman's chamber at such an hour of the night."
"I will send the people to do their offices for the dead, and prepare the body for interment," said Father Seysen; "but it were as well not to say that he was dead before I arrived, or to let it be supposed that he was called away without receiving the consolations of our holy creed." Philip motioned his head in assent as he stood at the foot of the bed, and the priest departed.
As the wife of a Catholic he had been accustomed to view Amine as one who had backslided from the Church of Rome not as one who had been brought up in another creed. He now recalled to mind that she had never yet been received into the Church, for Father Seysen had not considered her as in a proper state to be admitted, and had deferred her baptism until he was satisfied of her full belief.
It was here, if you recollect, that we debated the subject of the lawfulness of inducing dreams; and it was here, dear Philip, that you told me your dream, and that I expounded it." "You did so, Amine; but if you ask the opinion of Father Seysen, you will find that he would give rather a strong decision against you he would call it heretical and damnable." "Let him, if he pleases.
Say! is he not here? Fear not, if you say yes; but if you say no, you kill me!" "He is here, Amine," replied Father Seysen "here and well." "O God! I thank you; but where is he? If he is here, he must be in this room, or else you deceive me. Oh, this suspense is death!" "I am here," cried Philip, opening the curtains. Amine rose with a shriek, held out her arms, and then fell senseless back.
Many and many were the consultations with Father Seysen, many were the exhortations of both the good old men to Amine, who, at times, would listen without reply, and at others, argue boldly against them. It appeared to them, that she rejected their religion with an obstinacy as unpardonable as it was incomprehensible.
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