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Updated: May 20, 2025
He went to the church to see if he could not drive a better bargain, and for an hour he fought with a stout little priest in a dirty soutane who, finally declaring that God could never bless such a union, agreed that the Mass should cost only five francs. Thus Coupeau had twenty sous in hand with which to begin the world!
It was preached by the Doyen of Neuilly a tall, strong, broad-shouldered man who would have seemed more at home in a dragoon's uniform than in the soutane.
He was in his soutane, with his sleeves rolled up to the elbow. He gave me my directions, and while I made ready I watched the patients. There was one lame man, just beside me, beginning to dress; two tiny boys, and a young man who touched me more than I can say.
There she sat upon a stone, tearing her black dishevelled hair, and every now and then throwing up her head, and bursting into a long mournful cry, "for all the world," as Yeo said, "like a dumb four-footed hound, and not a Christian soul." On her knees lay the head of a man of middle age, in the long soutane of a Romish priest. One look at the attitude of his limbs told them that he was dead.
The Bishop came to me after a few minutes, smiling and apparently at peace with all the world. Except that he wore a biretta he was dressed as in Rome in his long black soutane with its innumerable buttons, his silver-buckled shoes, his heavy gold chain and jewelled cross.
'A Madame de Bonne! he muttered, reflecting. 'I have heard the name lately. Wait a moment. Disappearing into the house, he returned almost immediately, followed by a lanky pale-faced youth wearing a tattered black soutane. 'Yes, he said nodding, 'there is a worthy lady of that name lodging in the next street, I am told.
Several days later Constans adventured forth, making directly for the Citadel Square and from thence into the Palace Road. His official garb, a long black soutane and hood, was a tolerable disguise in itself, while the emblem of the forked lightning, worked in gold thread upon his left sleeve, vouched for his sacerdotal character as a member of the inferior priesthood.
Lanty was purring over his foster-brother, and cosseting him like a cat over a newly-recovered kitten, resolved not to see how much shaken the poor Abbe's intellect had been, and quite sure that the reverend father would be altogether himself when he only had his soutane again. 'Well hath the Prophet-chief your bidding done. Bugia was thoroughly Moorish, and subject to attacks of fanaticism.
Did they hit you, Father? She paused, arrested by the priest's face. 'They? he said hoarsely. 'Did you mean the children? Oh! no, they did no harm? What had happened to him since they met last at the villa? No doubt he had been in conflict with his superiors and his Church. Was he already suspended? excommunicate? But he still wore the soutane?
Of the Three Kings, also each bore a gift, two of them a necklace apiece, and the third a ring. I stood before the miracle, and my tongue clave to the roof of my mouth, and then a figure crept out of the shadows and knelt in the pool of moonlight at my feet. It was Jeanne. She caught at the skirt of my soutane, and broke into sobbing.
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