Storia do Mogor 366.6.2

366.6.2

When this poor father leaves Pondicherry for San Thomé, there to give an account of his conduct, his Lordship's heart is so hardened that he refuses him an audience ; he has the callousness to see our reverend father custodian prostrate at his feet, with eyes brimful of tears, unable to utter anything except through sighs and sobbing ; and yet he was not softened by a sight which would have converted a Turk and melted a heart of bronze. Where, then, gentlemen, do we find the gentleness that the Saviour of our souls desires us to learn from him ? I answer : Everywhere, except among the reverend Jesuit fathers !