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"I have searched as well as possible." "Then I shall assist your memory." "Do." The Theatin coughed several times. "You have said nothing of avarice, another capital sin, nor of those millions," said he. "What millions, father?" "Why, those you possess, my lord." "Father, that money is mine, why should I speak to you about that?" "Because, you see, our opinions differ.
I was then something of a soldier, and I threw myself at Casal into the arquebusades, to show that I rode on horseback as well as an officer. It is true, I restored peace between the French and the Spaniards. That redeems my sin a little." "I see no sin in being able to ride well on horseback," said the Theatin; "that is in perfect good taste, and does honor to our gown.
"One moment, does not the king sign the ordonnances?" Mazarin passed from sighs to groans. "Absolution! absolution!" cried he. "Impossible, my lord. Restitution! restitution!" replied the Theatin. "But you absolve me from all other sins, why not from that?" "Because," replied the father, "to absolve you for that motive would be a sin for which the king would never absolve me, my lord."
"My lord," interrupted he, "I think it would be quite as well to examine whether what the Theatin said is not a snare." "Oh! no; a snare? What for? The Theatin is an honest man." "He believed your eminence to be at death's door, because your eminence consulted him.
Did I not hear him say 'Distinguish that which the king has given you from that which you have given yourself. Recollect, my lord, if he did not say something a little like that to you? that is quite a theatrical speech." "That is possible." "In which case, my lord, I should consider you as required by the Theatin to " "To make restitution!" cried Mazarin, with great warmth. "Eh!
"Stop," said Mazarin; "there I begin to terrify myself with having allowed so many things to pass which the Lord might reprove." "Is not that always so?" said the Theatin naively, removing further from the lamp his thin pointed face, like that of a mole. "Sinners are so forgetful beforehand, and scrupulous when it is too late." "Sinners?" replied Mazarin.
"Father," said Candide to the Friar, "you appear to me to enjoy a state that all the world might envy; the flower of health shines in your face, your expression makes plain your happiness; you have a very pretty girl for your recreation, and you seem well satisfied with your state as a Theatin." "My faith, sir," said Friar Giroflée, "I wish that all the Theatins were at the bottom of the sea.
"So much the more for my having threatened with the Bastile a certain Bounet, a priest of Avignon, who wanted to publish a genealogy of the Casa Mazarini much too marvelous." "To be probable?" replied the Theatin. "Oh! if I had acted up to his idea, father, that would have been the vice of pride another sin."
It is in very bad taste. "Hum!" said the Theatin. "That is a first sin, father; for I have allowed myself made to descend from two old Roman consuls, S. Geganius Macerinus 1st, Macerinus 2d, and Proculus Macerinus 3d, of whom the Chronicle of Haolander speaks. From Macerinus to Mazarin the proximity was tempting. Macerinus, a diminutive, means leanish, poorish, out of case. Oh! reverend father!
"You suspect, then, that it may be long, father?" "How can I think it otherwise, when a man has lived so completely as your eminence has done?" "Ah! that is true! yes the recital may be long." "The mercy of God is great," snuffled the Theatin. "Stop," said Mazarin; "there I begin to terrify myself with having allowed so many things to pass which the Lord might reprove."
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