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At least M. Vignal and M. Lemaître, though both suffering themselves, were able to offer to the dying the consolations of their holy office.
"With the object of passing himself off for dead and of arranging subsequent matters in such a way that M. Vignal was bound to be accused of the death, the murder." "An ingenious theory," the deputy agreed, still in a satirical tone. "What do you think of it, M. Vignal?" "It is a theory which flashed through my own mind. Mr. Deputy," replied Jerome.
Some of them went up stairs to the first floor, while the sergeant arrived with a young man of whom Renine and Hortense were able to distinguish only the tall figure: "Jerome Vignal," said she. "Yes," said Renine. "They are examining Madame de Gorne first, upstairs, in her bedroom." A quarter of an hour passed. Then the persons on the first floor came downstairs and went in.
Old de Gorne was coming along, gesticulating as he walked. His easy-going features were screwed up to express sorrow and anger. "Where's my son?" he cried. "It seems the brute's killed him!... My poor Mathias dead! Oh, that scoundrel of a Vignal!" And he shook his fist at Jerome. The deputy said, bluntly: "A word with you, M. de Gorne.
Henceforth Ville Marie was to be the peculiar care of the Sulpicians, giving them for many years enough of both difficulty and danger. The Iroquois peril did not abate. Never a month passed but the alarm-bell rang out to warn the settlers that the savages were at hand. Even the priests went about their duties with sword at side; and two of them, Vignal and Le Maitre, fell beneath the tomahawk.
He growled: "Let's have done with this. What are you asking?" "A few minutes of your kind attention." "And with what object?" "To establish the innocence of M. Vignal and Madame de Gorne." He was wearing that calm air, that sort of indifferent look which was peculiar to him in moments of actions when the crisis of the drama depended solely upon himself.
Two other missionaries, le Maitre and Vignal, arrived subsequently, and were killed by the treacherous Iroquois while laboring for their conversion with incredible self-sacrifice.
Perhaps this was not the only cause of sickness, as we had a large number of passengers, among whom were two priests, M. le Maitre, and M. Vignal, both bound for the Montreal seminary. These holy men were afterwards murdered by the Indians, in cold blood. We took care to have the priests near us during the voyage, as pestilence soon broke out. Mlle.
But God had not abandoned His own. The Ursulines possessed a small farm, which from want of cultivation, had hitherto yielded them no profit. Deeply touched by their extreme poverty, their chaplain, Rev. M. Vignal, resolved to take it in hands, and not satisfied with merely superintending, he worked, with the labourers, and more actively than any.
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