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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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THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY' Article 1
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, Article 1
ESSAY ON PRUDENCE. Article 2
Untitled Article 3
A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE GRAND LODGE OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE FRATERNITY Article 8
THE FREEMASON. No. IV. Article 12
STORY OF URBAIN GRANDIER. Article 16
BASEM; OR, THE BLACKSMITH. AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE. Article 23
THOUGHTS ON SLEEP. Article 31
ACCOUNT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CHAPEL OF ROSLIN, &c. Article 32
AUTHENTIC ANECDOTE. Article 37
SUMMARY OF ALL THE ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST RICHARD BROTHERS. Article 38
ON THE DEPOPULATING INFLUENCE OF WAR. Article 42
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA. Article 43
THE GREEN ASS. Article 44
ACCOUNT OF A CASK IN THE CASTLE OF KONIGSTEIN, Article 45
CURIOUS PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF MALTA. Article 46
ON AVARICE. Article 47
THE HANDSOME MAN AND UGLY WIFE : Article 47
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Article 48
POETRY. Article 56
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BROTHER JOHN MILLS, COMEDIAN, OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, HULL. Article 57
THE KISS. Article 58
ON DESPAIR. Article 59
TO INDIFFERENCE : A RHAPSODY. Article 59
ODE TO AN ASS, Article 60
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 62
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 67
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 68
BANKRUPTS. Article 71
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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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