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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
their appearance , the Superior ofthe Convent fell into strange convulsions , and distorted her features into such horrible grimaces , that , from one of the handsomest women in France , she became in a moment one of the most deformed . To add to this effect , "She imitated the cries of a voung pig with singular success . At her right hand stood a White Friarand Mignon at her left . The latter conjured
, the Demon to answer to the following questions : ' For what reason have you entered into the body of this mi-id ? ' ' From a principle of animosity . ' ' by what compact ? ' 'By flowers . ' ' What flowers ?' ' Roses . ' ' Who sent them ( ' ' Urbain . ' She pronounced this name with great apparent repugnance , and with violent throes and convulsions . ' Tell me his surname , ' said Mignon . 'Grandier , ' answered
the supposed Demon . . It was plain enough that the Superior might easily have learned , in the course of the time in which they had been forming- her to this character , a sufficiency of Latin to make these few answers in that language , and that , to have put her fairly to the proof , the examination should have been committed to ecclesiastics to whom she was a stranger . The Soeur laie , who was . also very pretty , began her part as " soon as the other had finished , and went through the same mockery . The devil of this last proved not so learned , and referred
her examiners to the other devil for the information they required . After the scene was over , the judges retired . The affair began now to be the subject of ail the conversation in the town , and the name of Grandier to be in every body ' s mouth . The credulous ' and superstitious part of .. the neig hbourhood bowed their understandings ; the simple took all upon trust , through reverence and want of discernmentbut ail thinking and sensible persons
; saw clearly the absurdity- of the whole proceeding , though their charity at first would not suffer them to suppose that it had for its ob * jeer , so truly diabolical a purpose . They could not help remarking , however , that when Mignon was urged to demand of the Demon the cause of that animosity which occasioned the compact between him and Grandier-he refused to complybecausein realityit was a
, , , , question to which he had not taught the Nun a Latin answer . They could not but admire the ignorance of the Devil that possessed ; the Soeur laie . It occurred also , that these Devils had forgot to vary their parts , since they had played exactly the same scene before different persons . They remarked too the excess of Mignon ' s hate , which could not conceal itselfwhere disguise would have been
po-, litical . The share too which the Carmelites took in the transaction , seemed p lainly to result from the resentment they bore towards Grandier , for the contempt in which he held their preaching . And lastly , they observed that the enemies of Grandier assembled every night in the house of Trinquant ; at the village , of Puidardane .
The next time the Magistates made their appearance in the Convent , the convulsions were just finished , but the Superior was foaming and drivelling at the mouth , and presented a spectacle squalid
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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
their appearance , the Superior ofthe Convent fell into strange convulsions , and distorted her features into such horrible grimaces , that , from one of the handsomest women in France , she became in a moment one of the most deformed . To add to this effect , "She imitated the cries of a voung pig with singular success . At her right hand stood a White Friarand Mignon at her left . The latter conjured
, the Demon to answer to the following questions : ' For what reason have you entered into the body of this mi-id ? ' ' From a principle of animosity . ' ' by what compact ? ' 'By flowers . ' ' What flowers ?' ' Roses . ' ' Who sent them ( ' ' Urbain . ' She pronounced this name with great apparent repugnance , and with violent throes and convulsions . ' Tell me his surname , ' said Mignon . 'Grandier , ' answered
the supposed Demon . . It was plain enough that the Superior might easily have learned , in the course of the time in which they had been forming- her to this character , a sufficiency of Latin to make these few answers in that language , and that , to have put her fairly to the proof , the examination should have been committed to ecclesiastics to whom she was a stranger . The Soeur laie , who was . also very pretty , began her part as " soon as the other had finished , and went through the same mockery . The devil of this last proved not so learned , and referred
her examiners to the other devil for the information they required . After the scene was over , the judges retired . The affair began now to be the subject of ail the conversation in the town , and the name of Grandier to be in every body ' s mouth . The credulous ' and superstitious part of .. the neig hbourhood bowed their understandings ; the simple took all upon trust , through reverence and want of discernmentbut ail thinking and sensible persons
; saw clearly the absurdity- of the whole proceeding , though their charity at first would not suffer them to suppose that it had for its ob * jeer , so truly diabolical a purpose . They could not help remarking , however , that when Mignon was urged to demand of the Demon the cause of that animosity which occasioned the compact between him and Grandier-he refused to complybecausein realityit was a
, , , , question to which he had not taught the Nun a Latin answer . They could not but admire the ignorance of the Devil that possessed ; the Soeur laie . It occurred also , that these Devils had forgot to vary their parts , since they had played exactly the same scene before different persons . They remarked too the excess of Mignon ' s hate , which could not conceal itselfwhere disguise would have been
po-, litical . The share too which the Carmelites took in the transaction , seemed p lainly to result from the resentment they bore towards Grandier , for the contempt in which he held their preaching . And lastly , they observed that the enemies of Grandier assembled every night in the house of Trinquant ; at the village , of Puidardane .
The next time the Magistates made their appearance in the Convent , the convulsions were just finished , but the Superior was foaming and drivelling at the mouth , and presented a spectacle squalid