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This young cleric was sent from Besancon, some years ago, to keep an eye upon the abbe Chelan and certain parish priests of the district.
He had known the abbe Chelan for thirty years.
What a rebuff that would be!'I am dishonoured here and at Besancon,' replied the abbe Maslon, 'if he appears among my clergy.
A Jansenist, great heavens!''Whatever you may say, my dear abbe,' M. de Renal assured him, 'I shall not expose the municipal government of Verrieres to the risk of an insult from M. de La Mole.
It was not until the night between Saturday and Sunday, after three days of discussion, that the abbe Maslon's pride gave way before the Mayor's fear, which had turned to courage.
The next thing was to write a honeyed note to the abbe Chelan, inviting him to be present at the veneration of the relic at Bray-le-Haut, his great age and infirmities permitting.
Julien joined the abbe Chelan, who scolded him severely, and gave him a cassock and surplice.
Julien found a place for himself quite close to His Lordship, as being attached to the abbe Chelan.
But as he started for the chapelle ardente His Lordship of Agde summoned the abbe Chelan; Julien ventured to follow him.
The flashing eyes and pink cheeks of that young abbe Sorel were reason enough and to spare.
Valenod's coarse nature was offended by nothing, not even when the young abbe Maslon gave him the lie direct in public.
On the morning after his return, at six o'clock, the abbe Chelan sent for Julien:'I ask you nothing,' he said to him; 'I beg you, and if need be order you to tell me nothing, I insist that within three days you leave either for the Seminary at Besancon or for the house of your friend Fouque, who is still willing to provide a splendid career for you.
'Sincere!' repeated the abbe Pirard with an air of surprise, gazing at Julien; but this time the abbe's gaze was less devoid of all trace of humanity.
The abbe Pirard, relaxing the speed of his utterance as he came to the signature, breathed with a sigh the word 'Chelan.''He is calm,' he said; 'indeed, his virtue deserved that reward; God grant it to me, when my time comes!'
'I have here three hundred and twenty-one aspirants for the holiest of callings,' the abbe Pirard said at length, in a severe but not hostile tone; 'only seven or eight have been recommended to me by men like the abbe Chelan; thus among the three hundred and twenty-one you will be the ninth.
(Do you speak Latin?)' the abbe Pirard asked him as he returned.
The expression in the abbe's eyes grew gentler; Julien recovered a certain coolness.
The abbe Pirard examined Julien in theology, and was surprised by the extent of his knowledge.
'A strange man, Chelan,' thought the abbe Pirard; 'has he given him this book to teach him to laugh at it?'
The abbe Pirard almost smiled.
'Had you not been recommended to me,' said the abbe Pirard, returning with marked pleasure to the Latin tongue, 'had you not been recommended to me by a man such as the abbe Chelan, I should address you in the vain language of this world to which it appears that you are too well accustomed.
But the abbe Chelan has earned little, by fifty-six years of apostolic labours, if he cannot dispose of a bursary at the Seminary.'
After saying these words, the abbe Pirard advised Julien not to join any secret society or congregation without his consent.
'Put Julien Sorel in cell number 103,' the abbe Pirard told the man.
Following the maxims that he had laid down for himself, he regarded his three hundred and twenty-one comrades as so many enemies; the most dangerous of all in his eyes was the abbe Pirard.
And he chose the abbe Pirard.
'The abbe Castanede is the enemy of M. Pirard, who is suspected of Jansenism'; the little seminarist added, whispering this information in his ear.
One day, the abbe Pirard opened a letter which seemed to be half obliterated by tears, it was an eternal farewell.
But, to the eternal shame of the abbe Maslon, who has been spying so long upon that poor M. Chelan, Madame de Renal will have nothing to do with him.
'Unhappy France!' he went on, copying the hypocritical tone and meek accents of the abbe Maslon.
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