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...dropped from 111 to 90 pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...
Prudence & Plexiglass. Five days later, his Plexiglas support left behind at Lourdes, Gilbert Godard was back in Chaumont, the talk of the town. Why, asked a few skeptical citizens, should such grace have fallen on him when better folk had been bypassed? "The bounty of God," said Abbé Desprez, "can fall on anyone, good or not so good. God loves us all." Some accepted the explanation. But others whispered to neighbors' dark suggestions that here was no miracle. The clergy at Lourdes were noncommittal. "The Church," said Abbé Jeanson, "reserves absolutely its judgment on M. Godard...
...Marquet held my brief case; Finot held a wallet with my money and papers in it. Moineau and David held nothing but their fingers. . . . They felt rough, warm and kind. At this moment the ball hit the ground, two of the players slipped and fell, and Duclos ran towards Desprez with his fists raised . . . knocked him down brutally." The guards rushed up to intervene. Shedding his prison overcoat, Hélion "shot out" of the gate...
From a bathing house in Roubaix, France, emerged one Mme. Cuvelier Desprez, 87, moving with the cramped, deliberate shuffle of the very old. About her wasted body, peaked shoulder, shriveled rib, a one-piece bathing suit hung in folds from whose lower regions projected the wishbone straddle of her thighs. Her face was lean, brown, seamed with a thousand lines. The bathing attendant tapped her on the shoulder. "Be careful, my old one! Not so near the edge. One slip and- plumps-you would be in, hein?" Mme. Cuvelier turned on him the point of a yellow tooth. "Holy...
...Adams, '03, "The Everlasting No," Carlyle; R. R. Alexander '04, "Appeal for Dreyfus," Zola; E. W. Baker '04, "The Orator's cause," J. D. Wright; A. A. Ballantine '04, "The Southern Negro," H. W. Grady; P. Bancroft '03, "Lasca," F. Desprez; O. L. Bear '03, "Death of Jeanne d'Arc," Duruy," G. Bettman '03, "National Duties," Roosevelt; R. M. Bowen '03, "National Monument to Washington," R. C. Winthrop; S. Blaikie '03, "Address to New Hampshire Veterans," Roosevelt; W. R. Bowle '04, "The Revenge," Tennyson; H. J. Carleton '03, "The Negro Question," Cleveland; F. W. Catlett '04, "Commencements," Sarah W. Kellog...
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