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The abbe Pirard had been of no assistance to him; he had not once uttered a word to him apart from the tribunal of penitence, and even there he listened rather than spoke.
The reader, who is perhaps smiling, will please to remember all the mistakes made, in eating an egg, by the abbe Delille when invited to luncheon by a great lady of the Court of Louis XVI.
One day, in the middle of a lesson in dogma, the abbe Pirard sent for Julien.
Julien perceived the immensity of the danger; the abbe Castanede's police had stolen the address from him.
'The day on which I came here,' he replied, gazing at the abbe Pirard's forehead, for he could not face his terrible eye, 'I was trembling with fear: M. Chelan had told me that this was a place full of tale-bearing and spite of all sorts; spying and the accusation of one's comrades are encouraged here.
If the porters at the Seminary refuse to take your message, say that you are my cousin, and come from Genlis ..."''All this farrago will have to be investigated,' exclaimed the abbe Pirard who, unable to remain in one place, was striding up and down the room.
'You will go back to your cell!'The abbe accompanied Julien and locked him in.
Gluttons who think of nothing but the ham omelette they are going to devour at dinner, or men like the abbe Castanede, to whom no crime is too black!
The bell rang for the abbe Castanede's class of sacred history.
These young peasants who lived in such fear of the hard toil and poverty of their fathers, were taught that day by the abbe Castanede that that being so terrible in their eyes, the Government, had no real or legitimate power save what was delegated to it by God's Vicar on Earth.
This was the abbe Chas-Bernard, Master of Ceremonies at the Cathedral, where, for the last fifteen years, he had been kept in hopes of a Canonry; in the meantime, he taught sacred eloquence at the Seminary.
The abbe Chas had been led by this to show a partiality for him, and, at the end of his class, would gladly take his arm for a turn in the garden.
He found with amazement that, for hours on end, the abbe talked to him of the ornaments which the Cathedral possessed.
'Just imagine, my friend,' said the abbe Chas coming to a standstill and opening his eyes wide, 'these stuffs stand by themselves, there is so much gold in them.
I will go farther,' the abbe Chas added, lowering his voice.
One evening, in the middle of the armed drill, Julien was sent for by the abbe Pirard, who said to him:'Tomorrow is the feast of Corpus Christi.
The abbe Pirard called him back, and added, in a tone of compassion:'It is for you to decide whether you wish to seize the opportunity of taking a stroll through the town.''_Incedo per ignes_,' replied Julien: which is to say, I am treading on dangerous ground.
He saw in the distance the abbe Chas-Bernard, standing by the door of his beloved Cathedral; he was a large man with a joyful countenance and an open air.
It is too kind of you to give them a thought,' said the abbe Chas; 'is a road any the worse, because there are thorns in the hedges on either side of it?
The abbe Chas had been right in saying that their labours would be hard.
The abbe Chas was in ecstasies as he watched him spring from one ladder to another.
As he stepped down from the ladder, the abbe Chas-Bernard took him in his arms.
Never had the abbe Chas seen his church looking so well.
That is another gift from Madame de Rubempre; it comes from the famous Count, her great-grandfather; it is pure gold, my friend,' the abbe went on, whispering in his ear, and with an air of evident exaltation, 'nothing false about it!
He had no fear of being disturbed by the abbe Chas, who was occupied in another part of the building.
The abbe Chas-Bernard called repeatedly to Julien, who at first did not hear him: finally he came and led him by the arm from behind a pillar where Julien had taken refuge more dead than alive.
'You are feeling unwell, my child,' said the abbe, seeing him so pale and almost unable to walk; 'you have been working too hard.'
The abbe gave him his arm.
But when the Bishop passed, Julien was so tremulous that the abbe Chas abandoned the idea of presenting him.
Le Precurseur_Julien had not yet recovered from the profound abstraction in which the incident in the Cathedral had plunged him, when one morning the grim abbe Pirard sent for him.
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