human
It is dreadful to carry away an irritating and painful recollection of a first communion--and I know it will haunt me for ever. I know well enough that from a theological point of view it does not matter whether I am dealing with a priest or a Trappist; both are but interpreters between God and me, but yet, I feel very well that it is not at all the same thing. For once at least I need a guarantee of certain holiness, and how can I have it with an ecclesiastic who hawks about jokes like a bagman? He stopped, remembering that the Abbé Gévresin, fearing this mistrust, had specially sent him to a Trappist monastery.
gpt
What a run of ill-luck!