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Values today we'll be continuing les miserable by Victor Hugo.
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Chapter three a hard bishopric for a good bishop the bishop did not omit his pastoral visits because he had converted his carriage into alms.
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The diocese of Dee is a fatiguing one.
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There are very few plains and a great many mountains, hardly any roads, as we have just seen 32 curacies, 41 Vikor ships, and 285 auxiliary chapels.
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To visit all these is quite a task.
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The bishop managed to do it.
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He went on foot when it was in the neighborhood, in a tilted spring cart, when it was on the plane, and on a donkey in the mountains.
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The two old women accompanied him.
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When the trip was too hard for them, he went alone.
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One day he arrived at Senes, which is an ancient episcopal city.
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He was mounted on an a**.
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His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not permit him any other equipage.
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The mayor of the town came to receive him at the gate of the town and watched him dismount from his a** with scandalized eyes.
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Some of the citizens were laughing around him.
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Monsieur, the mayor said the bishop and monsieur's citizens.
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I perceive that I shock you.
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You think it very arrogant in a poor priest to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ.
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I have done so from necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity.
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In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent and talked rather than preached.
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He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples.
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He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example of a neighboring district in the cantons, where they were harsh to the poor.
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He said, look at the people of Briacan.
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They have conferred on the poor, on widows and orphans, the right to have their meadows mown three days in advance of everyone else.
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They rebuild their houses for them gratuitously when they are ruined.
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Therefore, it is a country which is blessed by God.
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For a whole century there has not been a single murderer among them.
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In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said, look at the people of Embrun.
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If at the harvest season, the father of a family has a son away on service in the army and his daughter is at service in the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curie recommends him to the prayers of the congregation.
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And on Sunday after the mass, all the inhabitants of the village, men, women and children, go to the poor mans field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his grain to his granary, to families divided by questions of money and inheritance.
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He said, look at the mountaineers of devilny, a country so wild that the nightingale is not heard.
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Once in 50 years, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their fortunes, leaving the property to the girls so that they may find husbands.
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To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said, look at those good peasants.
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In the valley of Cuirass there are 3000 souls of them.
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Mon dieu, it is like a little republic.
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Neither judge nor bailiff is known there.
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The mayor does everything.
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He allots the imposts, taxes.
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Each person conscientiously judges, quarrels for nothing, divides inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously, and he is obeyed because he is a just man among simple men.
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To villages where he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Cuirassier.
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You know how they manage, he said, since a little country of a dozen or 15 hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round of the villages, spending a week in this 110 days in that and instruct them.
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These teachers go to the fairs.
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I have seen them there.
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They are to be recognized by the quill pins which they wear in the cord of their hat.
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Those who teach reading only have one pen.
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Those who teach reading and reckoning have two pens.
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Those who teach reading, reckoning, and Latin have three pens.
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What a disgrace to be ignorant.
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Do like the people of Quirus.
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Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally.
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In default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ, and being convinced himself he was persuasive.
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Take it chapter by chapter, one at a time so many adventures and mountains we can climb.
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Take it word for word, line by line, one bite at a time.
