"You are going to say, just as Massin does, that a little girl of fifteen can't invent such plans and carry them out, or make an old man of eighty-three, who has never set foot in a church except to be married, change his opinions,--now don't tell me he has such a horror of priests that he wouldn't even go with the girl to the parish church when she made her first communion.

I'd like to know why, if Doctor Minoret hates priests, he has spent nearly every evening for the last fifteen years of his life with the Abbe Chaperon.

The old hypocrite never fails to give Ursula twenty francs for wax tapers every time she takes the sacrament.
Have you forgotten the gift Ursula made to the church in gratitude to the cure for preparing her for her first communion?
She spent all her money on it, and her godfather returned it to her doubled.

You men! you don't pay attention to things.

When I heard that, I said to myself, 'Farewell baskets, the vintage is done!' A rich uncle doesn't behave that way to a little brat picked up in the streets without some good reason." "Pooh, cousin; I dare say the good man is only taking her to the door of the church," replied the post master.