Priest
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"But those," replied Emma, and the corners of her mouth twitched as she spoke, "those, Monsieur le Cure, who have bread and have no—""Fire in the winter," said the
priest.
But the loud voice of the priest, the clear voices of the boys still reached her ears, and went on behind her.
The druggist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrancois, "Leave him alone!
The bed-clothes were sprinkled with holy water, the
priest
drew from the holy pyx the white wafer; and it was fainting with a celestial joy that she put out her lips to accept the body of the Saviour presented to her.
Homais, surprised at this silence, wanted to know his opinion, and the
priest
declared that he considered music less dangerous for morals than literature.
Then he went down to give the
priest
a thick shawl that he was to hand over to Emma as soon as he reached the "Croix-Rouge."
Pale as a statue and with eyes red as fire, Charles, not weeping, stood opposite her at the foot of the bed, while the priest, bending one knee, was muttering words in a low voice.
The
priest
rose to take the crucifix; then she stretched forward her neck as one who is athirst, and glueing her lips to the body of the Man-God, she pressed upon it with all her expiring strength the fullest kiss of love that she had ever given.
The
priest
did not fail to point this out; he even explained to Bovary that the Lord sometimes prolonged the life of persons when he thought it meet for their salvation; and Charles remembered the day when, so near death, she had received the communion.
As the death-rattle became stronger the
priest
prayed faster; his prayers mingled with the stifled sobs of Bovary, and sometimes all seemed lost in the muffled murmur of the Latin syllables that tolled like a passing bell.
Charles repeated like a machine—-"Monsieur Tuvache passing!"Homais did not dare to speak to him again about the funeral arrangements; it was the
priest
who succeeded in reconciling him to them.
Go!"The
priest
took him by the arm for a turn in the garden.
and the
priest
replied that there was nothing to do now but pray for her.
"They smell the dead," replied the
priest.
The
priest
did not need any persuading; he went out to go and say mass, came back, and then they ate and hobnobbed, giggling a little without knowing why, stimulated by that vague gaiety that comes upon us after times of sadness, and at the last glass the
priest
said to the druggist, as he clapped him on the shoulder—"We shall end by understanding one another."
They ranged themselves all round; and while the
priest
spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
As for me, I shall never forgive the cure.'CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the PoorA virtuous
priest
who does not involve himself in intrigue is a blessing for the village.
'Well, gentlemen, I shall be the third parish priest, eighty years of age, to be deprived of his living in this district.
He is a young
priest
or thereabouts, a good Latin scholar, and will bring the children on; for he has a strong character, the cure says.
'Although I said so to her, to maintain my own superiority, it had never occurred to me that if I do not take this little
priest
Sorel, who, they tell me, knows his Latin like an angel, the governor of the poorhouse, that restless spirit, might very well have the same idea, and snatch him from me, I can hear the tone of conceit with which he would speak of his children's tutor!
To win over the old
priest
Chelan, upon whom he saw quite clearly that his own future depended, he had learned by heart the entire New Testament in Latin; he knew also M. de Maistre's book _Du Pape_, and had as little belief in one as in the other.
Had he not dared to have a difference of opinion with a
priest
who, almost every fortnight, went to Besancon, where he saw, people said, the Right Reverend Lord Bishop?
All at once Julien ceased to speak of Napoleon; he announced his intention of becoming a priest, and was constantly to be seen, in his father's sawmill, engaged in learning by heart a Latin Bible which the cure had lent him.
I must become a priest.'
So this was the tutor whom she had imagined an unwashed and ill-dressed priest, who was coming to scold and whip her children.
And so those sweet children, whom she had tended with such care, were not to fall into the hands of a dirty, growling
priest.
'Eh, what a bonny little priest,' the cook, a good and truly devout girl, said aloud.
I am sorry to see underlying your character, a smouldering ardour which does not suggest to my mind the moderation and complete renunciation of earthly advantages necessary in a priest; I augur well from your intelligence; but, allow me to tell you,' the good cure went on, with tears in his eyes, 'in the calling of a priest, I shall tremble for your salvation.'
He thinks me unfit to be a priest, at the very moment when I imagined that the sacrifice of an income of fifty louis was going to give him the most exalted idea of my piety and my vocation.
'My friend,' he appealed to him again, 'be an honest yeoman, educated and respected, rather than a
priest
without a vocation.'
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