de Lescure."
Had he told the man that they were angels from heaven, and had the man
believed him, he could neither have been more surprised, or expressed
a stronger feeling of adoration.
The poor man implored a multitude of blessings on the two ladies, whose
names were so dear to every peasant of La Vendee, and then told them
that after the new priest had ran away, the old Cure had come back to
his own house again, but that Father Bernard was a very old man, hardly
strong enough even to perform mass, though, as there was no one else to
it, he did go through it every Sabbath morning; that for these two days
past there had been another priest staying with Father Bernard; he did
not, however, know what his name was, but he knew that he had been with
the army, and that no priest through all La Vendee had been more active
than he had been to encourage the royalists. The man then offered to
show them to the Cure's house, and they all turned thither together.
The little chapel was on one side of the road, and the humble house of
the parish priest was immediately opposite to it, ensconced among a few
trees, at a little distance from the road.
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