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Vitalis and Marie Boyer
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I found the story of this case in a brochure published in Paris as one of a series of modern causes celebres. I have compared it with the reports of the trial in the Gazette des Tribunaux.
I In the May of 1874, in the town of Montpellier, M. Boyer, a retired1 merchant, some forty-six years of age, lay dying. For some months previous to his death he had been confined to his bed, crippled by rheumatic gout. As the hour of his death drew near, M. Boyer was filled with a great longing2 to see his daughter, Marie, a girl of fifteen, and embrace her for the last time. The girl was being educated in a convent at Marseilles. One of M. Boyer's friends offered to go there to fetch her. On arriving at the convent, he was told that Marie had become greatly attracted by the prospect3 of a religious life. "You are happy," the Mother Superior had written to her mother, "very happy never to have allowed the impure4 breath of the world to have soiled this little flower. She loves you and her father more than one can say." Her father's friend found the girl dressed in the costume of a novice5, and was told that she had expressed her desire to take, one day, her final vows7. He informed Marie of her father's dying state, of his earnest wish to see her for the last time, and told her that he had come to take her to his bedside. "Take me away from here?" she exclaimed. The Mother Superior, surprised at her apparent reluctance8 to go, impressed on her the duty of acceding9 to her father's wish. To the astonishment10 of both, Marie refused to leave the convent. If she could save her father's life, she said, she would go, but, as that was impossible and she
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hatred
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providence
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pretext
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