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Next morning, the abbe Pirard was almost followed through the streets, and the tradesmen came out to their shop-doors when he went to beg an audience of the Marquis's judges.
These friends embraced him with tears in their eyes, and then said to one another: The good abbe might have spared himself that lie, it is really too absurd.'
The common herd, blinded by love of money, were not fitted to understand that it was in his sincerity that the abbe Pirard had found the strength to fight single-handed for six years against Marie Alacoque, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Jesuits and his Bishop.
The Edinburgh ReviewThe Marquis de La Mole received the abbe Pirard without any of those little mannerisms of a great gentleman, outwardly so polite, but so impertinent to him who understands them.
The little slip of paper which the abbe gave him explained everything.
'My dear abbe,' said the Marquis, after polishing off in less than five minutes all the polite formulas and personal inquiries, 'my dear abbe, in the midst of my supposed prosperity, I lack the time to occupy myself seriously with two little matters which nevertheless are of considerable importance: my family and my affairs.
I take the greatest interest in the fortunes of my house, I may carry it far; I look after my pleasures, and that is what must come before everything else, at least in my eyes,' he went on, noticing the astonishment in the eyes of the abbe Pirard.
Although a man of sense, the abbe was amazed to see an old man talking so openly of his pleasures.
The abbe declined, but towards the end of the conversation, the sight of the Marquis's genuine embarrassment suggested an idea to him.
'How do you know his name?' asked the astonished abbe; and, as he was blushing at his own question:'That is what I am not going to tell you,' replied the Marquis.
'Very well!' the abbe went on, 'you might try making him your secretary, he has energy, and judgment; in short, it is an experiment worth trying.''Why not?' said the Marquis; 'but would he be the sort of man to let his palm be greased by the Prefect of Police or by anyone else, to play the spy on me?
Receiving favourable assurances from the abbe Pirard, the Marquis produced a note for one thousand francs:'Send this to Julien Sorel for his journey; tell him to come to me.''One can see,' said the abbe Pirard, 'that you live in Paris!
'I was forgetting one thing,' said the abbe: 'this young man, although of quite humble birth, has a proud heart, he will be of no use to you if his pride is offended; you will only make him stupid.''I like that,' said the Marquis, 'I shall make him my son's companion, will that do?'Some time after this, Julien received a letter in an unknown hand and bearing the postmark of Chalons, and found a draft upon a merchant in Besancon and instructions to proceed to Paris without delay.
The letter was signed with an assumed name, but as he opened it Julien trembled: a leaf from a tree had fallen out at his feet; it was the signal arranged between him and the abbe Pirard.
He represented himself to his friend as deprived of his free will by the abbe Pirard's letter.
He went first of all to his original protector, the good abbe Chelan.
This is where the abbe de Frilair's protectors reign.'
On the evening of the third day, curiosity prevailed over his plan of seeing everything before calling upon the abbe Pirard.
The said abbe explained to him, in a frigid tone, the sort of life that awaited him at M. de La Mole's.
'It may happen,' the abbe Pirard continued, 'that some old lady or some man of persuasive speech will hint to you the prospect of immense advantages, or quite plainly offer you money to let him see the letters received by the Marquis ...''Oh, Sir!' cried Julien, blushing.
'It is strange,' said the abbe with a bitter smile, 'that, poor as you are, and after a year of Seminary, you still retain these virtuous indignations.
'Can it be his blood coming out?' murmured the abbe, as though putting the question to himself.
'But you must be well aware,' the abbe went on in a harsh tone, 'that he is not giving you all this money for your handsome face.
'Ah!' said the abbe, 'I have been making inquiries on your behalf; I was forgetting M. de La Mole's family.
If you were a fool, you might let yourself be taken in by them; if you wished to succeed, you ought to let yourself be taken in.''On the day when all this ceases to agree with me,' said Julien, 'shall I be considered ungrateful if I return to my little cell, number 103?''No doubt,' replied the abbe, 'all the sycophants of the house will slander you, but then I shall appear.
The fact was that the abbe felt a scruple of conscience about loving Julien, and it was with a sort of religious terror that he was thus directly interfering with the destiny of another man.
The cruel tone had gone from the abbe's voice.
I have found another father in you, Sir.''Good, good,' said the abbe, with embarrassment; then remembering most opportunely a phrase from the vocabulary of a Director of a Seminary: 'You must never say fortune, my child, always say Providence.'
The abbe turned to Julien, whom he presented.
As they left the room, the abbe said to Julien:'You looked at the Marquis as you would have looked at a picture.
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