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La-bas

CHAPTER III
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He doesn't look like a seminary product.

Most of them have the shuffling gait and sheepish air of an old gardener." "Carhaix will be all right for a few more years," said Des Hermies, as if to himself, "and then let us mercifully wish him a speedy death.

The Church, which has begun by sanctioning the introduction of gas into the chapels, will end by installing mechanical chimes instead of bells.

That will be charming.

The machinery will be run by electricity and we shall have real up-to-date, timbreless, Protestant peals." "Then Carhaix's wife will have a chance to go back to Finistere." "No, they are too poor, and then too Carhaix would be broken-hearted if he lost his bells.


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