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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
and shocking . Barre demanded of the Demon , ' When he would depart ? ' He replied , ' To-morrow morning . ' He next asked , ' For what reason he should remain till that time ? ' The Devil replied , ' It is a compact , ' and immediately after , ' Sacerdos , finis . ' It seemed as if he hardly knew what be said , and was come to the end of his Latin . After many ceremonies had been performed , and a long list of the names of saints repeatedthe Superior regained her
, tranquillity , and , regarding Barre with a smile , declared that tlie Demon had left her . She was asked if she remembered the questions which had been addressed tc her ? to which she replied in the negative . After she had taken a little nourishment , she assured those around her that it was about the hour of six in the evening when the Demon first invaded her ; that she was in bedwith
seve-, ral Nuns in her chamber . She could perceive that somebody took one of her hands , and , after having put into it three black pinsjclosed it again . It is strange to think that such absurdities should not have' inspired univeral disgust among any people above barbarous ignorance ; the only shadow of excuse under which such torpid credulity could shelter
itself , was the natural repugnance men felt at imagining that there could be found , capable of so horrid a machination so large a number of their fellow-creatures , and that too among the ministers and votaries of a mild and meicini ) religion . A similar scene was every day acted before the ma-ristrates and
officers ofthe town . The BaiHi , however , and the Lieutenant Civil , were not among the number ofthe implicit believers , aud refused to authorise or accredit any relations of miracles to which they themselves were not ocular witnesses . Grandier had regarded in profound tranquillity the first proceedings of the conspirators : he had seen them in ali g ht so truly contemptible , as to feel no apprehension for their consequences . But perceiving thatat length . the comedy
, , grew less laughable , and that serious impressions , to the injury of his character , had already been made by their calumnies , he felt it necessary to represent his situation to the Bailli , and to protest against their proceedings . It required but little argument to expose a delusion so gross . Grandier obtained from the magistrate a candid attention to his representationswho entered them in the
public-, register , and gave him a clear recital of the various scenes at which he had been present in the Monastery . In the mean time the unfortunate ecclesiastic saw his enemies multiply around him , to whom were now added Rene Memin Sieur de Silly , the Major of the town , the Lieutenant Criminel , and all the servants of the King . The Bishop of Poitiers had manifested an
ill disposition towards him from the commencement of tlie plot ; and , upon being applied to by Grandier , threw him again upon the royal judges . It was in vain that the Bailli repeatedly ordered that the Nuns should be separated from each other , and examined by unprejudiced persons ; The rest ofthe olficers would , not assist him ; and
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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
and shocking . Barre demanded of the Demon , ' When he would depart ? ' He replied , ' To-morrow morning . ' He next asked , ' For what reason he should remain till that time ? ' The Devil replied , ' It is a compact , ' and immediately after , ' Sacerdos , finis . ' It seemed as if he hardly knew what be said , and was come to the end of his Latin . After many ceremonies had been performed , and a long list of the names of saints repeatedthe Superior regained her
, tranquillity , and , regarding Barre with a smile , declared that tlie Demon had left her . She was asked if she remembered the questions which had been addressed tc her ? to which she replied in the negative . After she had taken a little nourishment , she assured those around her that it was about the hour of six in the evening when the Demon first invaded her ; that she was in bedwith
seve-, ral Nuns in her chamber . She could perceive that somebody took one of her hands , and , after having put into it three black pinsjclosed it again . It is strange to think that such absurdities should not have' inspired univeral disgust among any people above barbarous ignorance ; the only shadow of excuse under which such torpid credulity could shelter
itself , was the natural repugnance men felt at imagining that there could be found , capable of so horrid a machination so large a number of their fellow-creatures , and that too among the ministers and votaries of a mild and meicini ) religion . A similar scene was every day acted before the ma-ristrates and
officers ofthe town . The BaiHi , however , and the Lieutenant Civil , were not among the number ofthe implicit believers , aud refused to authorise or accredit any relations of miracles to which they themselves were not ocular witnesses . Grandier had regarded in profound tranquillity the first proceedings of the conspirators : he had seen them in ali g ht so truly contemptible , as to feel no apprehension for their consequences . But perceiving thatat length . the comedy
, , grew less laughable , and that serious impressions , to the injury of his character , had already been made by their calumnies , he felt it necessary to represent his situation to the Bailli , and to protest against their proceedings . It required but little argument to expose a delusion so gross . Grandier obtained from the magistrate a candid attention to his representationswho entered them in the
public-, register , and gave him a clear recital of the various scenes at which he had been present in the Monastery . In the mean time the unfortunate ecclesiastic saw his enemies multiply around him , to whom were now added Rene Memin Sieur de Silly , the Major of the town , the Lieutenant Criminel , and all the servants of the King . The Bishop of Poitiers had manifested an
ill disposition towards him from the commencement of tlie plot ; and , upon being applied to by Grandier , threw him again upon the royal judges . It was in vain that the Bailli repeatedly ordered that the Nuns should be separated from each other , and examined by unprejudiced persons ; The rest ofthe olficers would , not assist him ; and