I have never been able to comprehend the passion which some people
have for confusing their minds by giving themselves to the study of
mystical books which only awaken their doubts, inflaming their
imagination, and giving them a disposition to exaggeration altogether
contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us read the Apostles and the
Gospel. Do not let us seek to penetrate what is mysterious in these, for
how can we dare presume, miserable sinners as we are, to enter into the
terrible and sacred secrets of Providence, while we wear this carnal
husk that raises an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us
rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime principles which our
divine Saviour has left us as guides for our conduct here below; let us
seek to conform ourselves to those and follow them; let us persuade
ourselves that the less range we give to our weak human understanding,
the more agreeable it will be to God, who rejects all knowledge that
does not come from Him; that the less we seek to dive into that which He
has pleased to hide from our knowledge the sooner will He discover it
to us by means of His divine Spirit.“My father has not spoken to me of
the suitor, but has only told me that he has received a letter, and was
expecting a visit from Prince Vassily. In regard to a marriage-scheme
concerning myself, I will tell you, my dear and excellent friend, that
to my mind marriage is a divine institution to which we must conform.
However painful it may be to me, if the Alrnighty should ever impose
upon me the duties of a wife and mother, I shall try to fulfil them as
faithfully as I can without disquieting myself by examining my feelings
in regard to him whom He may give me for a husband.“I have received a
letter from my brother, who announces his coming to Bleak Hills with his
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It will be a pleasure of brief duration, since he is leaving us to take
part in this unhappy war into which we have been drawn, God knows how
and why. It is not only with you, in the centre of business and society,
that people talk of nothing except war, for here also, amid those
rustic labours and that calm of nature, which townspeople generally
imagine in the country, rumours of war are heard and are felt painfully.
My father talks of nothing but marches and counter-marches, things of
which I understand nothing; and the day before yesterday, taking my
usual walk in the village street, I witnessed a heartrending scene.… It
was a convoy of recruits that had been enrolled in our district, and
were being sent away to the army. You should have seen the state of the
mothers, wives and children of the men who were going, and have heard
the sobs on both sides. It seems as though humanity had forgotten the
laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and the forgiveness of
offences, and were making the greatest merit to consist in the art of
killing one another.“Adieu, dear and good friend: may our divine Saviour
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MARIE.”“Ah, you are sending off your letters, princess. I have already
finished mine. I have written to my poor mother,” said Mademoiselle
Bourienne quickly in her agreeable, juicy voice, with a roll of the r's.
She came in, all smiles, bringing into the intense, melancholy, gloomy
atmosphere of the Princess Marya an alien world of gay frivolity and
self-satisfaction. “Princess, I must warn you,” she added, dropping her
voice, “the prince has had an altercation,”she said, with a peculiar
roll of the r, seeming to listen to herself with pleasure. “An
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He is in a very ill humour, very morose. Be prepared, you know.”“Ah,
chère amie,” answered Princess Marya, “I have begged you never to tell
me beforehand in what humour I shall find my father. I do not permit
myself to judge him and I would not have others do so.”The princess
glanced at her watch, and seeing that it was already five minutes later
than the hour fixed for her practice on the clavichord, she went with a
face of alarm into the divan-room. In accordance with the rules by which
the day was mapped out, the prince rested from twelve to two, while the
young princess practised on the clavichord.CHAPTER XXIIITHE GREY-HAIRED
VALET was sitting in the waiting-room dozing and listening to the
prince's snoring in his immense study.
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