... to stay. He was trying to forge a new Will in that devout and exhausted priest; and the time was short, for the diligence for Paris was already rumbling down the mountain gorge" (299). One further paragraph ends the novel with a description of the cathedral bell tolling the Archbishop's death. This scene of narrative origin resists any simple or single reading. Its ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate