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    The Priest's Tale - Père Etienne From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
    The Priest's Tale - Père Etienne From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
    The Priest's Tale - Père Etienne From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
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    The Priest's Tale - Père Etienne From "The New Decameron", Volume III.

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Priest's Tale - Père Etienne From "The New Decameron", Volume III. - Robert Keable

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      Title: The Priest's Tale - Père Etienne

             From The New Decameron, Volume III.

      Author: Robert Keable

      Release Date: August 31, 2007 [EBook #22478]

      Last Updated: February 4, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRIEST'S TALE - PÈRE ETIENNE ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE PRIEST'S TALE

      PÈRE ETIENNE

      From The New Decameron—Volume III.

      By Robert Keable

      PÈRE ETIENNE came aboard at Dares-Salaam and did not at once make friends. It was our own fault, however. He neither obtruded nor effaced himself, but rather went quietly on his own way with that recollection which the clerical system of the Catholic Church encourages. We few first-class passengers had already settled down into the usual regularities of shipboard life, from the morning constitutional in pyjamas on the boat deck, to the Bridge four after dinner in the smoke-room, and, besides, it was plain that Père Etienne was not likely to have much in common with any of us. So we were polite at a distance, like Englishmen everywhere. Even I, who, by virtue of my cloth, might have been supposed to make advances, was shy of beginning. I was young in those days, and for one thing spelt Rome always with a big capital.

      But from the first there was something which attracted me to the priest, the more so as it was hard to define. In his appearance there was nothing to suggest interest. His age was round about fifty; his hair brown, though in his beard a white hair or two was to be observed. In his short black coat and trousers he looked neither mediaeval nor a traveller, and his luggage was neither romantically minute nor interestingly large. He was booked from Dar-es-Salaam to Bombay, and the purser professed neither to know whence he came nor whither he went beyond those two fixed points.

      Yet I was attracted. I have no wish to bore you, so that I shall not dwell upon the point, but in my opinion it was interesting. There are some people who carry an atmosphere with them as they go their own individual way about the world, and there are others who can instantly perceive it. I am not speaking of clairvoyance; I dislike that jargon; but I do know that I was conscious of Père Etienne if he did but pass the smoke-room door when I was about to play a doubled four in No Trumps.

      Well, our old British India tramp lay about for a week

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