Chapter

 1 I   |  embrace; the benevolence of a god, that gave freely, without
 2 I   |     weak little voice, “Oh, my God, my poor children!” She
 3 V   |     received the guest sent by God. They had to sleep on a
 4 VII |        positively, swore, took God as his witness. What proof
 5 VII |      daughter, very wrong, and God will not pardon you so easily.
 6 VII |    sorrow has come to you; but God in His mercy has balanced
 7 VIII|    their conditions and cursed God, whom she had formerly thought
 8 VIII|     there: “Are you crazy, for God’s sake! to go and throw
 9 X   |   human interests, his love of God, his youthful and untutored
10 X   |    this child, the minister of God.~He led her to Christ, the
11 X   |       catholic conception of a God with bourgeois instincts,
12 X   |       you. You are unworthy of God’s mercy!”~She fell on her
13 X   |      approach of the hour when God would smite all his enemies.~
14 XI  |        she talked to him about God, telling him the wonderful
15 XI  |  however, Poulet said to her: “God is everywhere, but He is
16 XI  |  classes: those who believe in God and those who do not believe
17 XI  |     But may one not believe in God without going to church?”~“
18 XI  |     The faithful go to worship God in His church, just as one
19 XI  |        Jeanne, hurt, replied: “God is everywhere, madame. As
20 XI  | believe, madame, in a partisan God. I believe in the God of
21 XI  | partisan God. I believe in the God of upright people.” She
22 XI  |  Tolbiac: “Madame, the hand of God is weighing heavily on you.
23 XI  |       this lesson from Heaven? God’s mercy is infinite. Perhaps
24 XI  |       a conditional pardon, as God could not pour down all
25 XI  |      little Jeanne, I will ask God to take pity on you.”~Jeanne