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The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall
die of having lived.

Wherever there was a French priest, there should be a garden of fruit trees and vegetables and flowers. He often quoted to his students that passage from their fellow Auvergnat, Pascal: that Man was lost and saved in a garden.

He knelt, and Father Vaillant, having blessed him, knelt and was blessed in turn. They embraced each other for the past - for the future.

We have done the things we used to plan to do, long ago, when we were Seminarians - at least some of them. To fulfil the dreams of one's youth - that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.