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Our Superior has sent for me and rebuked me. He told me I had caused great ill-feeling among the brothers and the people, and asked what devil had me in possession that I should walk into church with the daughter of the public hangman.
What could I say but that I pitied the poor maiden and could not do otherwise than as I did?