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And, think of it, theirs had been a love match! But for ten years he had neglected her, profiting by his continual journeys as a commercial traveller to take friends about with him from one to the other end of France. Ah! that time she had thought it all over, she had asked the Blessed Virgin to let her die, for she knew that the faithless one was at that very moment at Luchon with two friends.
'So all this time I have been doing him an injustice, I continued. 'VIVE MONSEIGNEUR! Long live the little Bishop of Luchon! I might have known it, too. 'Don't make too sure! the man answered spitefully. Then he went on, 'I have something else for you. A friend of yours left it at the gate, and he handed me a packet. 'Quite so! I said, leading his rascally face aright.
He spent a few minutes more at the book-stall where he selected an imposing collection of illustrated papers, and then, his final preparations completed, he turned once more to the porter. "The Luchon train," he said; "where is it?" and as the man only made a vague gesture and growled something wholly indistinct, he added: "Lead the way, and I will follow."
He probably lives as a poor, but perfectly honest man in one of the remote villages in the Pyrenees, and is perhaps held in high esteem by all around him. It was the case of the notorious Maurice Tricoche who escaped us for years and lived near Luchon until he was betrayed by a woman whose husband he had maltreated. Perhaps Despujol will also be betrayed. We hope so!"
An address, dated 30th of October, from the Rector of Villos de Luchon, thus expatiates in blasphemy: "For my part, I believe that no religion in any country in the world is founded on truth. I believe that all the various religions in the world are descended from the same parents, and are the daughters of pride and ignorance."
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