"When I say a thing, so it must be," he said as he entered; "I will not eat my words." He picked out twelve nuns, who were immediately taken away and dispersed in different monasteries.

M.
d'Andilly was at the gate, receiving in his carriage his sister, Mother Agnes, aged and infirm, and his three daughters doomed to exile.

"I had borne up all day without weeping and without inclination thereto," writes Mother Angelica de St.Jean on arrival at the _Annonciades bleues;_ "but when night came, and, after finishing all my prayers, I thought to lay me down and take some rest, I felt myself all in a moment bruised and lacerated in every part by the separations I had just gone through; I then found sensibly that, to escape weakness in the hour of deep affliction, there must be no dropping of the eyes that have been lifted to the mountains." Ten months later the exiled nuns returned, without having subscribed, to Port-Royal des Champs, a little before the moment when M.de Saci, who had become their secret director since the death of M.Singlin, was arrested, together with his secretary, Fontaine, at six in the morning, in front of the Bastille.

"As he had for two years past been expecting imprisonment, he had got the epistles of St.Paul bound up together so as to always carry them about with him.

'Let them do with me what they please,' he was wont to say; 'wherever they put me, provided that I have my St.Paul with me, I fear nothing.'" On the 13th of May, 1666, the day of his arrest, M.de Saci had for once happened to forget his book.