What do you recommend ?" She kept her eyes still fixed upon her tapestry, but her voice was firm and clear as she answered:-- "You have yourself said that you are the eldest son of the Church.
If the eldest son desert her, then who will do her bidding?
And there is truth, too, in what the holy abbe has said.

You may imperil your own soul by condoning this sin of heresy.

It grows and flourishes, and if it be not rooted out now, it may choke the truth as weeds and briers choke the wheat." "There are districts in France now," said Bossuet, "where a church is not to be seen in a day's journey, and where all the folk, from the nobles to the peasants, are of the same accursed faith.

So it is in the Cevennes, where the people are as fierce and rugged as their own mountains.

Heaven guard the priests who have to bring them back from their errors." "Whom should I send on so perilous a task ?" asked Louis.
The Abbe du Chayla was down in a instant upon his knees with his gaunt hands outstretched.