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Title: Fifty years in the Church of Rome
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Chiniquy, Charles Paschal Telesphore, 1809-1899
Subjects: Chiniquy, Charles Paschal Telesphore, 1809-1899 Catholic Church Catholic Church Protestant converts
Publisher: Chicago : A. Craig
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ur trouble is that we have not yet drsnk together a single glassof sherry. Fill your glass with that wine, and it will surelydrown the blue devil, which I see at its bottom. With pleasure, I said, I feel much honored to drink withyou, and I put some drops of wine into my glass. Oh ! oh !what do I see you doing there ? Only a few drops in your glass!This will not even wet the cloven feet of the blue devil which istormenting you. It requires a full glass, an overflowing glass,to drown and finish him. Fill, then, your glass with thatprecious wine—the best I ever tasted in my whole life. But I cannot drink more than those few drops, I said. Why not? he replied. Because, eight days before her death, my mother wroteme a letter, requesting me to promise her that I would neverdrink more than two glasses of wine at the same meal. I gaveher that promise in my answer, and the very day she got mypledge, she left this world to convey it, written on her heart,into heaven, to the feet of her God !
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GRAND DINNER OF THE PRIESTS. 209 Keep that sacred pledge, answered the old curate; hutiell nie why you are so sad when we are so happy ? You already know part of my reasons—if I had drank asmuch wine as my neighbor, the vicar of St. Gervais, I wouldprobably have filled the room with my shouts of joy, as he does;but you see now that the hands of my deceased, though alwaysdear mother, are on my glass to pre\ent me from filling it anymore, for I have already drank two glasses of wine, But your sadness in such a circumstance is so strange, thatwe would all like to know its cause. Yes, yes, said all the priests. You know that we likeyou, and we deeply feel for 3^ou. Please tell us the reason ofthis sadness. I then answered, It would be better for me to keep myown secret, for I know I will make a fool of myself here; butas you are unanimous in requesting me to give you thereasons of the mental agony through which I am just passing,you will have them. You well know that, through very singu

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