But God also permitted me to find this unfortunate man in a junk-shop, to carry him to Fontainebleau, to examine him with certain men of science and to agree with them upon a method almost sure to restore him to life.

All this proves one thing--which is that God is more just, more merciful and more inclined to pity than those who abuse his name in order to excite you." "I assure you, Monsieur, that I am not in the least excited.

I yield to your reasons because they are good ones and because you are a man of consideration in the community.

I sincerely hope, moreover, that you will not think harshly of an act of zeal which I have been advised to perform.

I am a functionary, Monsieur.