Storia do Mogor 361.4.3

361.4.3

In fact, before delivering our petition of appeal to his Lordship, we opened the conversation with the usual compliments, and after a somewhat prolonged conversation on indifferent subjects, our Reverend Father Guardian — that is, custodian and vice-provincial in the Indies [Laurent (Lorenzo) of Angoulême] — begged once more the Lord Bishop to be so kind as to have the goodness to adjust the affair of the Reverend Father Esprit, and not to leave him to pass the Festival of the Nativity in such a pitiable condition. His Lordship replied that the said Reverend Father Esprit declined to submit himself. Upon hearing this our Father Guardian replied at once : ' My lord, he has travelled post from Pondicherry with that object, and it is barely two days ago that he was an hour and a half in your entrance-hall awaiting the moment when he would be allowed to see your Lordship once more, and present to you his most humble supplications and pray you urgently to listen to his arguments.' ' Call you that a submission ?' said my Lord Bishop. ' He must admit himself wrong ; he must ask pardon for his misdoing ;