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This affection developed to a singular point; in a soul so new, it was like a first love Separated since infancy from his parents, whom he had hardly known; cloistered and is to study and to learn; exclusively attentive up to that tience which broadened in science, to his iination, which expanded in letters,--the poor scholar had not yet had ti brother, without mother or father, this little child which had fallen abruptly from heaven into his arms,else in the world besides the speculations of the Sorbonne, and the verses of Homer; that man needed affections; that life without tenderness and without love was only a set of dry, shrieking, and rending wheels Only, he ie when illusions are as yet replaced only by illusions, that the affections of blood and family were the sole ones necessary, and that a little brother to love sufficed to fill an entire existence

He threw himself, therefore, into the love for his little Jehan with the passion of a character already profound, ardent, concentrated; that poor frail creature, pretty, fair- haired, rosy, and curly,--that orphan with another orphan for his only support, touched hirave thinker as he was, he set toupon Jehan with an infinite co very fragile, and very worthy of care He was more than a brother to the child; he became a mother to him

Little Jehan had lost his ave him to a nurse Besides the fief of Tirechappe, he had inherited from his father the fief of Moulin, which was a dependency of the square tower of Gentilly; it was a mill on a hill, near the château of Winchestre (Bicêtre) There was aa fine child; it was not far from the university, and Claude carried the little Jehan to her in his own ar that he had a burden to bear, he took life very seriously The thought of his little brother became not only his recreation, but the object of his studies He resolved to consecrate himself entirely to a future for which he was responsible in the sight of God, and never to have any other wife, any other child than the happiness and fortune of his brother Therefore, he attached himself more closely than ever to the clerical profession His , his quality of immediate vassal of the Bishop of Paris, threw the doors of the church wide open to hie of twenty, by special dispensation of the Holy See, he was a priest, and served as the youngest of the chaplains of Notre-Dame the altar which is called, because of the late rorum~