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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPOINTED PRIOR OF TORBECHET. 7 in a higher course of study than was pursued in the College of Mayenne, and better suited to his distinguished talents, accepted this offer, with gratitude, and promised to send him to Paris at the commencement of the approaching term. Soon after this, the celebrated advocate Geibier, a member of the council of Monsieur, afterwards Louis the Eighteenth, visited Mayenne. He became extremely interested in the young Abbe Cheverus; and, anxious to perform some act of kindness to a family so honorable, and so worthy of the favor of their princes, he promised M. Cheverus to solicit for his son one of the benefices which weie in the gift of Monsieur. He fulfilled his promise; and the young Abbe Cheverus was appointed by Monsieur, prior of Torbechet, with the title of his Chaplain Extraordinary. This priory, situated some leagues from Mayenne, yielded but a trifling emolument, affording, at most, an income of eight hundred livres. It became, however, the subject of a lawsuit, which was contested for many years. The Abbe Cheverus, then, as ever, the friend of peace, and entirely opposed to the spirit of strife, suffered long from this dispute, and was desirous of terminating it amicably; but his lawyer, fully confident of success, warmly opposed any compromise, and enjoyed in anticipation the honor of victory. The young Prior, weary of delay, deprived him of this pleasure, and terminated the controversy at once, by voluntarily surrendering his rights, at the very moment when the affair seemed about to be brought to a close. Being asked afterwards, why he had not suffered the suit to go on, since he was sure of gaining his cause, he made this noble reply, in accordance with the goodness of his heart; Because, in gaining the cause, I should have r...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458982018
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458982017
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 186 gr


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