than religious zeal, he attached himself, though a layman, to a SocietyJesus--'"
At these words of the testament, Father d'Aigrigny, Rodin, and Gabriel
this action, continued to read:
"'After some years, during which he had never ceased to profess the most
revelations as to the secret.html">secret.html">secret ends it pursued, and the means it employed.
"'This was in 1510, a month before the assassination of Henry IV.
"'My grandfather, terrified at the secret of which he had become the
the best of kings, not only broke with the Society, but, as if
abandoned the Romish religion, in which he had hitherto lived, and became
Company with Ravaillac, a connivance also proved in the case of Jean
family.html">family. Thank Heaven, these papers have been placed in safety, and if my
casket in the Hall of Mourning, in the house in the Rue Saint-Francois.
"'My father was also exposed to these secret persecutions. His ruin, and
the intervention of an angelic woman, towards whom he felt an almost
of the man whom I hold in the greatest reverence, were painted by me from
to be gratefully valued, I hope, by the descendants of my family.'"
For some moments Gabriel had become more and more attentive to the
coincidence one of his ancestors had, two centuries.html">centuries before, broken with
rupture, two centuries old, dated also that species of hatred with which
priest find it less strange that this inheritance, transmitted to him
victim of the Society of Jesus), should return by a voluntary act to the
to the two portraits, Gabriel, who, like Father d'Aigrigny, sat with his
.
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