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++++ Young Calvin In Paris; Or, The Scholar And The Cripple William
Maxwell Blackburn William Oliphant & Co., 1868
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CHAPTER III. THE TjlTTJjE MEETINGS. On the way to his shop
Berthelot fell in with a bird of his own feather. It was Robert
Daniel, a young brother of the celebrated lawyer, Francis Daniel at
Orleans. He had come to Paris to see the world, and the shoe-maker
was able to lead him into some of its darkest corners. As they had
not met for some time, they had much to relate, and having told of
a few late frays, Berthelot inquired, " Has your sister really
taken the veil?" " Yes, and the giddy creature will find that she
has made a great mistake. She loves the world as much as I do, but
her teachers made her believe that it was a very romantic thing to
bury herself in a nunnery." " She would have found much more
romance in our lively circles. It grieves me to think that I shall
never dance with her again, unless I break into the convent some
night and bring her out into freedom. Why did not her friends
reason with her?" " That is all the trouble. They reasoned in the
wrong way They persuaded her to be a nun. Even my brother, the
advocate, did not oppose it, ifshe would only take the veil
willingly and not by constraint." "What could have possessed them?"
" I can tell you. It was their fear that she would become a
heretic. She was an ardent admirer of the Queen of Navarre, and
they began to write letters to each other. The queen sent her a
Testament and some of her religious poems. My sister could not keep
from showing them, and then her teachers began with their crafty
arts." " Just tell me when you learn that she is tired of her
gloomy cage, and I will find a way to let the bird go free," said
Berthelot on reaching the door of his shop. Robert would have gone
on, but a glance showed him that the older Milon was out and young
Coiffard was in, waiting for just such ...
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