CHAPTER XXXII.

THE ABSOLUTION. This is what had passed. We have seen that it was not voluntarily, but much against his inclination, that the monk attended the wounded man, who had been recommended to him in such a singular manner. Perhaps he might have endeavoured to fly if he had seen any possibility of succeeding, but the menaces of the two gentlemen, their attendants, who had remained after them, and who, doubtless, had received their instructions, and to tell the whole truth, reflection itself had prevailed upon the monk to p…