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"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 was excess of wit, and a person is not to be reproached with such sorts of abuses.
The Theatin looked fresh coloured, plump, and vigorous; his eyes were sparkling, his air assured, his look lofty, and his step bold. The girl was very pretty, and sang; she looked amorously at her Theatin, and from time to time pinched his fat cheeks. "At least you will allow me," said Candide to Martin, "that these two are happy.
"A Theatin, monseigneur, is a bad judge in matters of finance," replied Colbert, coolly. "And yet it is very possible that, according to his theological ideas, your eminence has been, in a certain degree, in the wrong. People generally find they have been so, when they die." "In the first place, they commit the wrong of dying, Colbert." "That is true, my lord.
"What is it?" asked Mazarin, "and why do you disturb me?" "The Theatin father, your eminence's director, was sent for this evening; and he cannot come again to my lord till after to-morrow." Mazarin looked a Colbert, who rose and took his hat, saying: "I shall come again, my lord." Mazarin hesitated. "No, no," said he; "I have as much business to transact with you as with him.
"In ten years that is twenty millions, and twenty millions put out at fifty per cent give, by progression, twenty-three millions in ten years." "How well you reckon for a Theatin!" "Since your eminence placed our order in the convent we occupy, near St. Germain des Pres, in 1641, I have kept the accounts of the society." "And mine likewise, apparently, father."
"That character, if I may venture to express myself thus, resembles that which my lord confessed just now to the Theatin." "Go on that is?" "Pride! Pardon me, my lord, haughtiness, nobleness; kings have no pride, that is a human passion." "Pride, yes, you are right. Next?" "Well, my lord, if I have divined rightly, your eminence has but to give all your money to the king, and that immediately."
"That is my duty, my lord," replied the Theatin. "Begin by sitting down, and making yourself comfortable, for I am going to begin with a general confession; you will afterwards give me a good absolution, and I shall believe myself more tranquil." "My lord," said the father, "you are not so ill as to make a general confession urgent and it will be very fatiguing take care."
The Theatin promised to do what the Queen thus earnestly desired, and when his fair penitent came to confess, he ordered her at once to break off her connection with the Court as with the world, and to shut herself up in a convent.
Give me absolution, and my soul will be able, when God shall please to call it, to mount without obstacle to the throne " The Theatin moved neither his arms nor his lips. "What are you waiting for, father?" said Mazarin. "I am waiting for the end." "The end of what?" "Of the confession, monsieur." "But I have ended." "Oh, no; your eminence is mistaken." "Not that I know of." "Search diligently."
Against whom, however, did the Theatin make out that you had committed these wrongs? Against the king?!" Mazarin shrugged his shoulders. "As if I had not saved both his state and his finances." "That admits of no contradiction, my lord." "Does it? Then I have received a merely legitimate salary, in spite of the opinion of my confessor?" "That is beyond doubt."
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