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           Ayoungpriest,withasimpleandtrustfulheart,performedthedutiesofthechurchofthatconvent.Sheundertookhisseduction,andsucceeded;shewouldhaveseducedasaint.

           "Theirvowsweresacredandirrevocable.Theirconnectioncouldnotlastlongwithoutruiningboth.Sheprevaileduponhimtoleavethecountry;buttoleavethecountry,toflytogether,toreachanotherpartofFrance,wheretheymightliveateasebecauseunknown,moneywasnecessary.Neitherhadany.Theprieststolethesacredvases,andsoldthem;butastheywerepreparingtoescapetogether,theywerebotharrested.

           "Eightdayslatershehadseducedthesonofthejailer,andescaped.Theyoungpriestwascondemnedtotenyearsofimprisonment,andtobebranded.IwasexecutionerofthecityofLille,asthiswomanhassaid.Iwasobligedtobrandtheguiltyone;andhe,gentlemen,wasmybrother!

           "Ithensworethatthiswomanwhohadruinedhim,whowasmorethanhisaccomplice,sinceshehadurgedhimtothecrime,shouldatleastsharehispunishment.Isuspectedwhereshewasconcealed.Ifollowedher,Icaughther,Iboundher;andIimprintedthesamedisgracefulmarkuponherthatIhadimprinteduponmypoorbrother.

           "ThedayaftermyreturntoLille,mybrotherinhisturnsucceededinmakinghisescape;Iwasaccusedofcomplicity,andwascondemnedtoremaininhisplacetillheshouldbeagainaprisoner.Mypoorbrotherwasignorantofthissentence.Herejoinedthiswoman;theyfledtogetherintoBerry,andthereheobtainedalittlecuracy.

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