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When at length the latter found himself alone in his little room walled with planks of firwood, 'It is true,' he said to himself, 'I can make a few thousand francs here, then return with advantage to the calling of soldier or priest, according to the fashion prevailing in France at the time.
As they returned to the drawing-room, towards midnight, Madame de Renal murmured in his ear:'Are you leaving us, are you going away?'Julien answered with a sigh:'I must indeed go away, for I love you passionately; it is a sin ... and what a sin for a young priest!'Madame de Renal leaned upon his arm, bending towards him until her cheek felt the warmth of his.
What, because this young labourer dressed up as a
priest
was tutor to his brats, he had the audacity to appoint him to the Guard of Honour, to the exclusion of M. This and M. That, wealthy manufacturers!
'Is it a preliminary ceremony that this young
priest
is performing?
In her grief and her fear of God, she forgets all that she knows of the man; she sees only the priest.''Leave me,' came suddenly from Madame de Renal as she opened her eyes.
Julien, wishing to show Verrieres what it meant to be a priest, went and fetched from his father's store a dozen planks of firwood, which he carried on his back the whole length of the main street.
'Certainly, my fine young priest,' the landlady of the Ambassadeurs said to him, 'I shall keep your lay clothes for you, indeed I will have them brushed regularly.
He worked hard, and rapidly succeeded in learning things of great value to a priest, entirely false in his eyes, and in which he took no interest.
One young priest, barely a year in orders, having presented a domestic rabbit to an old cure's servant, had got the cure to ask for him as his assistant, and a few months afterwards, for the cure had died almost immediately, had succeeded him in a good living.
'_Optime_!' exclaimed the worthy priest, 'I shall tell Monseigneur of this.'Their ten o'clock breakfast was a merry feast.
Never will he make either a good
priest
or a great administrator.
He saw without observing them; at the same time, whether from a vague sense of his duty, or from admiration of the plain but noble attire of these ladies, he remarked that there was no
priest
in that confessional.
Will the newspaper ever manage to take the place of the parish
priest?
Julien saw with astonishment that this
priest
boldly opened the letter addressed to the Bishop.
In addition, this abbe who seemed so greatly interested in M. Pirard's resignation, was dressed with an elegance that greatly pleased Julien, who had never seen its like on any other
priest.
'No,' he replied, at length, 'Julien is not a priest.'
'It is all a waste of time, this experiment with a little Franc-comtois priest,' thought the Marquis; 'but I did so want a trustworthy man.
'I augur well of this little priest,' the Marquis said to the Academician; 'a simple countryman in such a scrape!
He knows well that he is poor, and that he has studied to become a priest; they are squadron commanders, and have no need of study; it is a more comfortable life.
In the heroic age of France, in the days of Boniface de La Mole, Julien would have been the squadron commander, and my brother the young priest, properly behaved, with wisdom in his eyes and reason on his lips.'
That day, after luncheon, when Madame de La Mole asked him for a seditious and at the same time quite rare pamphlet, which her parish
priest
had brought to her secretly that morning, Julien, in taking it from a side table, knocked over an old vase of blue porcelain, the ugliest thing imaginable.
After searching his coat, 'this is no diplomat,' said the priest: he moved away, and wisely.
The
priest
and his acolyte left the room.
This unexpected turn in his affairs made him talk like an angel; and as self-esteem finds its way even into hearts that serve as temples to the most august virtue: 'Madame de La Mole is right,' the Marechale said to herself, as she stepped into her carriage, 'that young
priest
has distinction.
GIRODETAfter having read without pleasure at first Julien's long letters, Madame de Fervaques began to take an interest in them; but one thing distressed her: 'What a pity that M. Sorel is not really a
priest!
(In so large a sum, bestowed on a young man, the
priest
saw only an occasion of sin.)'The Marquis adds: "M.
When he came to himself a little, he noticed the whole congregation rushing from the church; the
priest
had left the altar.
The half-smile that animated the features of the
priest
who was in supreme control of everything at Besancon, betokened the man used to good society, the cultured prelate, the able administrator.
'But why!' she said to herself presently, 'would it not have been worse to have made no impression upon the cold egoism of a
priest
sated with the enjoyment of power?'Dazzled by this rapid and unexpected avenue to the episcopate that was opening before his eyes, astonished at Mathilde's intelligence, for a moment M. de Frilair was off his guard.
The letter sent to M. de La Mole had been written by the young
priest
who directed Madame de Renal's conscience, and then copied out by her.
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