Abbe Mouret's Transgression

Abbe Mouret's Transgression
(La faute de l'Abbe Mouret)

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Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

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1875

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Abbe Mouret's Transgression
(La faute de l'Abbe Mouret)

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Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.

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ring concern, at seeing it thus go off spangle by spangle. The priest had to wear it almost every day. And how on earth could it be replaced--how would they be able to buy the three chasubles whose place it took, when the last gold threads should be worn out?

Upon the chasuble La Teuse next laid out the stole, the maniple, the girdle, alb and amice. But her tongue still wagged while she crossed the stole with the maniple, and wreathed the girdle so as to trace the venerated initial of Mary's holy name.

'That girdle is not up to much now,' she muttered; 'you will have to make up your mind to get another, your reverence. It wouldn't be very hard; I could plait you one myself if I only had some hemp.'

Abbe Mouret made no answer. He was dressing the chalice at a small table. A large old silver-gilt chalice it was with a bronze base, which he had just taken from the bottom of a deal cupboard, in which the sacred vessels and linen, the Holy Oils, the Missals, candlesticks, and crosses were kept

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