'I do not see.' 'Your priest would see, however,' retorted Desprez.
'Would he ?' asked the boy, troubled for the first time.

'I should have thought God would have known.' 'Eh ?' snarled the Doctor.
'I should have thought God would have understood me,' replied the other.
'You do not, I see; but then it was God that made me think so, was it not ?' 'Little boy, little boy,' said Dr.Desprez, 'I told you already you had the vices of philosophy; if you display the virtues also, I must go.

I am a student of the blessed laws of health, an observer of plain and temperate nature in her common walks; and I cannot preserve my equanimity in presence of a monster.

Do you understand ?' 'No, sir,' said the boy.
'I will make my meaning clear to you,' replied the doctor.

'Look there at the sky--behind the belfry first, where it is so light, and then up and up, turning your chin back, right to the top of the dome, where it is already as blue as at noon.