"I don't want to play a nasty trick on poor Father ChasBernard by summoning him here," he said to Fouqué. "It'd put him off his dinner for three days. But try to find me a Jansenist who's a friend of M. Pirard and impervious to intrigue."

Fouqué was waiting impatiently for this opening. Julien acquitted himself with propriety of everything that is owed to public opinion -- in the provinces. Thanks to the Abbé de Frilair, and despite his bad choice of confessor, Julien in his cell was the protégé of the Congregation; if he had handled things better, he might have engineered his escape. But the bad air in the cell was having its effect, and his mental powers were dwindling. This increased his happiness at Mme de Rênal's return.

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