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Aubert, in a tremulous voice, said, he wished her to join in prayer with him, and asked if La Voisin would do so too. The old man and his daughter came; they both wept, and knelt with Emily round the bed, while the holy father read in a solemn voice the service for the dying. St.
On the day before she was to repair to Saint-Germain, La Voisin, betrayed in her turn, received a surprise visit from the police who, of course, had no knowledge of the regicide their action was thwarting and she was carried off to the Chatelet.
It was La Voisin who stood on the threshold to receive her client. In the stone-flagged hall behind her the light of a lantern revealed her daughter, Marguerite Monvoisin, and a short, crafty-faced, misshapen fellow in black homespun and a red wig a magician named Lesage, one of La Voisin's coadjutors, a rogue of some talent who exploited the witches of Paris to his own profit.
Aubert, recollecting himself, and smiling affectionately, desired she would not add to her fatigue by that attention; and La Voisin, whose consideration for his guest had been suspended by the interests which his own narrative had recalled, now started from his seat, and, apologizing for not having called Agnes from the green, hurried out of the room.
He had chosen the evening of the reappearance of the celebrated Mademoiselle Voisin she had been enjoying a congé of three months an actress whom Miriam had seen several times before and for whose method she professed a high though somewhat critical esteem.
While Emily looked from one of the casements, she perceived, with surprise, some objects, that were familiar to her memory; the fields and woods, with the gleaming brook, which she had passed with La Voisin, one evening, soon after the death of Monsieur St.
'Ah! It is a sigh of genuine relief. At last he has a clue, if a slight one. But what does he want of a clue? Having gotten thus far, I relate briefly my experience of this morning, omitting description and the name of Monsieur Voisin, whom I describe as a tall dark-haired gentleman, evidently a foreigner, and then I play my card.
Voisin, a distinguished French physiologist and phrenologist, attempted the organization of a school for idiots in Paris. In 1839, aided by Dr. Leuret, he revived the School for Idiots in the Bicêtre, subsequently under the charge of M. Vallée. The "Apostle to the Idiots," however, to use a French expression, was Dr. Edward Seguin.
It is not probable that the documents concerning the trial, having been so carefully suppressed from the beginning, especially the confession dictated to Voisin who wrote it kneeling on the ground, and was perhaps so appalled at its purport that he was afraid to write it legibly will ever see the light.
As I left the house, intent upon my new errand, I was not surprised to see approaching it, almost at the door, in fact, Monsieur Voisin.
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