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Then, solicited for copies, he made several, gaining thereby, according to his own admission, more than twenty-five thousand francs, and thus gave publicity to the affair. I was very much annoyed at this, and with the noise it made in the world; and I wrote to M. de La Trappe, relating the deception I had practised upon him, and sued for pardon.
The correspondence between them ceased, and if Marie-Gaston had entered the convent of La Trappe, he could not have been more completely lost to his friend. When Dorlange returned from Rome in 1836, the sequestration of Marie-Gaston's person and affection was more than ever close and inexorable.
In the portrait, the Abbé is dressed in the habit of the order, a white gown and hood, and sitting with a book before him, in which he appears to be writing; on the same table, before him, are a crucifix and a skull. The following inscription is painted in one corner by the artist: "ARM'D. LE BOUTTHILLIER DE RANCE. S'R SCAUANT. et célèbre Abbé Réformateur De La Trappe. Mort en 1700.
When Durtal asked him the opinion which the villagers round about had of the monks, the peasant was evidently afraid of compromising himself, for he answered, "Some say nothing about them." Durtal began to be rather weary, when suddenly as they turned out of a lane, he saw an immense building below him. "There is La Trappe!" said the peasant, gathering his reins for the descent.
I have frankly asked M. de La Trappe upon this matter, and from him I have learned that he was one of the friends of Madame de Montbazon, but that so far from being ignorant of the time of her death, he was by her side at the time, administered the sacrament to her, and had never quitted her during the few days she was ill.
This intimacy, singular at my age, I kept secret from everybody, and only went to the convent clandestinely. On my return from La Trappe, I became engaged in an affair which made a great noise, and which had many results for me.
Sometimes he wanted no noise; then, when the countess had succeeded in establishing absolute silence, he would declare he was in a tomb, and blame her for not finding some medium between incessant noise and the stillness of La Trappe. Sometimes he affected a perfect indifference for all earthly things.
He had appeared on the boards of the opera; he had gone about in company with a monkey; he had fought a duel, and believing that he had killed his man had swallowed poison; he had been an inmate of the monastery of La Trappe, after a temporary disappointment in love; and he had been sent to the Bastille with other discontented Bretons.
However, the Queen only gave her as husband the Chevalier de Huze, her cloak-bearer, so as to keep the girl about her person and to be intimate with her daily. Philippa played the mandolin and the guitar to perfection; she, also sang and danced with consummate grace. Le Bouthilier de Ranch, Abbe de la Trappe.
Resolved to be as obstinately silent as a monk of La Trappe, he once more shut himself up in his cell, and fell fast asleep dreamed that fat bulls of Basan encompassed him round about that he ran down a steep bill to escape them that his foot slipped he rolled to the bottom felt the bull's horns in his side heard the bull bellowing in his ears wakened and found Terence M'Dermod bellowing at his room door.
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