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sucres, with, delicious wine, and, to crown all, some bottles of 

 clos de vougeot, the small tasse of exquisite coffee, and its at- 

 tendant liqueur. In fact, it was impossible to see a dinner 

 better cooked or more hospitably offered. 



" l Ma foij said I to our amiable cure ; ' ' I never dined 

 better in my life, and enjoy it the more, from the fact of your 

 sermon having led us to expect the repast of a Trappist.' 



"' My good friends/ answered the cure, 'all these theories 

 are very good from the pulpit. ; There they can do no harm. 

 Here it is very different. Besides, I assure you that for 

 forty thousand francs I would not be, obliged to practise 

 what I preach every day for forty sous.' " 



