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On re-entering the cloister, the archdeacon found at the door of his cell his brother Jehan du Moulin, aiting for hi on the ith a bit of charcoal, a profile of his elder brother, enriched with a monstrous nose

Dohts were elsewhere Thathad so often restored serenity to the priest's sorew nant soul

"Brother," said Jehan timidly, "I am come to see you"

The archdeacon did not even raise his eyes

"What then?"

"Brother," resuive me such wise counsels that I always return to you"

"What next?"

"Alas! brother, you were perfectly right when you said to me,--"Jehan! Jehan! ~cessat doctorum doctrina, discipulorum disciplina~ Jehan, be wise, Jehan, be learned, Jehan, pass not the night outside of the college without lawful occasion and due leave of the el not the Picards: ~noli, Joannes, verberare Picardos~ Rot not like an unlettered ass, ~quasi asinus illitteratus~, on the straw seats of the school Jehan, allow yourself to be punished at the discretion of thethere an anthein Mary--Alas! what excellent advice was that!"

"And then?"

"Brother, you behold a culprit, a criminal, a wretch, a libertine, a man of enormities! My dear brother, Jehan hathto trample under foot I have been well chastised for it, and God is extraordinarily just As long as I had ly and crabbed behind is debauch which is so charer a blank; I have sold my napery, my shirt and uished and I have henceforth, only a wretched tallow dip which smokes in my nose The wenches jeer at me I drink water--I am overwhelmed with remorse and with creditors

"The rest?" said the archdeacon

"Alas! my very dear brother, I should like to settle down to a better life I come to you full of contrition, I am penitent I make ht in wishing that I should soe of Torchi At the present nificent vocation for that profession But I have no more ink and I must buy some; I have no more paper, I have no reatly in need of a little money, and I come to you, brother, with my heart full of contrition"