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The Vicar of Tours

The Vicar of Tours

Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
De Balzac, Honore

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1483983714
ISBN13: 9781483983714
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 28 2013
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt: ... eloquence of genuine feeling the constant bitterness he was made to swallow; but Troubert laid his hand above those lids with a gesture very common to thinkers, maintaining the dignified demeanor which was usual with him. When the vicar had ceased to speak he would indeed have been puzzled had he sought on Troubert's face, marbled with yellow blotches even more yellow than his usually bilious skin, for any trace of the feelings he must have excited in that mysterious priest. After a moment's silence the canon made one of those answers which required long study before their meaning could be thoroughly perceived, though later they proved to reflecting persons the astonishing depths of his spirit and the power of his mind. He simply crushed Birotteau by telling him that these things amazed him all the more because he should never have suspected their existence were it not for his brother's confession. He attributed such stupidity on his part to the gravity of his occupations, his labors, the absorption in which his mind was held by certain elevated thoughts which prevented his taking due notice of the petty details of life. He made the vicar observe, but without appearing to censure the conduct of a man whose age and connections deserved all respect, that in former days, recluses thought little about their food and lodging in the solitude of their retreats, where they were lost in holy contemplations, and that in our days, priests could make a retreat for themselves in the solitude of their own hearts. Then, reverting to Birotteau's affairs, he added that such disagreements were a novelty to him. For twelve years nothing of the kind had occurred between Mademoiselle Gamard and the venerable Abbe Chapeloud. As for himself, he might, no doubt, be an arbitrator between the vicar and their landlady, because his friendship for that person had never gone beyond the limits imposed by the Church on her faithful servants; but if so, justice demanded...

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