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Chapter 6 All sins whatever, quoth the abbess, turning casuist in the distress they were under, are held by the confessor of our convent to be either mortal or venial: there is no further division. Now a venial sin being the slightest and least of all sinsbeing halvedby taking either only the half of it, and leaving the restor, by taking it all, and amicably halving it betwixt yourself and another personin course becomes diluted into no sin at all. Now I see no sin in saying, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, a hundred times together; nor is there any turpitude in pronouncing the syllable ger, ger, ger, ger, ger, were it from our matins to our vespers: Therefore, my dear daughter, continued the abbess of AndouilletsI will say bou, and thou shalt say ger; and then alternately, as there is no more sin in fou than in bouThou shalt say fouand I will come in (like fa, sol, la, re, mi, ut, at our complines) with ter. And accordingly the abbess, giving the pitch note, set off thus:
The two mules acknowledged the notes by a mutual lash of their tails; but it went no furtherTwill answer by an by, said the novice.
Quicker still, cried Margarita. Fou, fou, fou, fou, fou, fou, fou, fou, fou. Quicker still, cried Margarita. Bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou, bou. Quicker stillGod preserve me; said the abbessThey do not understand us, cried MargaritaBut the Devil does, said the abbess of Andouillets. |
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