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Ursula

CHAPTER XVII
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"You are annoyed for some object by evil persons." "How can that be?
Neither Savinien nor I have injured any one; and I am no longer an obstacle to the prosperity of others." "Well, well, my child," said the abbe, quietly, "let us profit by this tempest, which has scattered our little circle, to put the library in order.

The books are still in heaps.

Bongrand and I want to get them in order; we wish to make a search among them.

Put your trust in God, and remember also that in our good Bongrand and in me you have two devoted friends." "That is much, very much," she said, going with him to the threshold of the door, where she stretched out her neck like a bird looking over its nest, hoping against hope to see Savinien.
Just then Minoret and Goupil, returning from a walk in the meadows, stopped as they passed, and the colossus spoke to Ursula.
"Is anything the matter, cousin; for we are still cousins, are we not?
You seem changed." Goupil looked so ardently at Ursula that she was frightened, and went back into the house without replying.
"She is cross," said Minoret to the abbe.
"Mademoiselle Mirouet is quite right not to talk to men on the threshold of her door," said the abbe; "she is too young--" "Oh!" said Goupil.

"I am told she doesn't lack lovers." The abbe bowed hurriedly and went as fast as he could to the Rue des Bourgeois.
"Well," said Goupil to Minoret, "the thing is working.


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