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Ball of Fat 30
Just as soup was served, Monsieur Follenvie reappeared, repeating his phrase of
the evening before:
"The Prussian officer sends to ask if Mademoiselle Elisabeth Rousset has changed
her mind."
Ball of Fat answered briefly:
"No, monsieur."
But at dinner the coalition weakened. Loiseau made three unfortunate remarks.
Each was cudgeling his brains for further examples of self-sacrifice, and could
find none, when the countess, possibly without ulterior motive, and moved simply
by a vague desire to do homage to religion, began to question the elder of the
two nuns on the most striking facts in the lives of the saints. Now, it fell out
that many of these had committed acts which would be crimes in our eyes, but the
Church readily pardons such deeds when they are accomplished for the glory of
God or the good of mankind. This was a powerful argument, and the countess made
the most of it. Then, whether by reason of a tacit understanding, a thinly
veiled act of complaisance such as those who wear the ecclesiastical habit excel
in, or whether merely as the result of sheer stupidity—a stupidity admirably
adapted to further their designs—the old nun rendered formidable aid to the
conspirator. They had thought her timid; she proved herself bold, talkative,
bigoted. She was not troubled by the ins and outs of casuistry; her doctrines
were as iron bars; her faith knew no doubt; her conscience no scruples. She
looked on Abraham's sacrifice as natural enough, for she herself would not have
hesitated to kill both father and mother if she had received a divine order to
that effect; and nothing, in her opinion, could displease our Lord, provided the
motive were praiseworthy. The countess, putting to good use the consecrated
authority of her unexpected ally, led her on to make a lengthy and edifying
paraphrase of that axiom enunciated by a certain school of moralists: "The end
justifies the means."
"Then, sister," she asked, "you think God accepts all methods, and pardons the
act when the motive is pure?"
"Undoubtedly, madame. An action reprehensible in itself often derives merit from
the thought which inspires it."
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