They remained alone together above half an hour; when Emily was called in, she found St.Aubert more agitated than when she had left him, and she gazed, with a slight degree of resentment, at the friar, as the cause of this; who, however, looked mildly and mournfully at her, and turned away.

St.Aubert, in a tremulous voice, said, he wished her to join in prayer with him, and asked if La Voisin would do so too.

The old man and his daughter came; they both wept, and knelt with Emily round the bed, while the holy father read in a solemn voice the service for the dying.
St.Aubert lay with a serene countenance, and seemed to join fervently in the devotion, while tears often stole from beneath his closed eyelids, and Emily's sobs more than once interrupted the service.
When it was concluded, and extreme unction had been administered, the friar withdrew.

St.Aubert then made a sign for La Voisin to come nearer.

He gave him his hand, and was, for a moment, silent.