"Well, well, you will change all that."
"It is possible. Meanwhile, give me your hand: I am going to ask for his blessing."
"Go, then, and much good may it do you!"
"I believe it will."
I went to the abbé.
"Well, well," he said, "so you are going to leave us?"
It will be seen that the rumour of my departure had already spread all over the place.
"Yes, M. l'abbé, and I have come to ask you to remember me in your prayers."
"Oh! my prayers? I thought that was the thing you cared least about."