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TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY
"Because the Spirit of the Lord is with me."
"Your domicile?"
"Lately in the desert, and soon in heaven."
"Have you no remorse for your crimes?"
"I have committed none. My soul is like a garden full of shelter and of fountains."
At Pont de Montvert, on the 12th of August, he had his right hand stricken from his body, and was burned alive. And his soul was like a garden? So perhaps was the soul of Du Chayla, the Christian martyr. And perhaps if you could read in my soul, or I could read in yours, our own composure might seem little less surprising.
Du Chayla's house still stands, with a new roof, beside one of the bridges of the town; and if you are curious you may see the terrace-garden into which he dropped.
