The wasting persecutions of the Calvinists in the mountains of the
Cevennes drove men and women wild with desperate fanaticism. De
Serre had an immense following. He assumed to impart the Holy
Spirit and the gift of tongues by breathing upon the believers. The
refugees carried his doctrines to England, and handed down their
singular ideas to modern times; and a sect may still be found which
believes in the gift of tongues and practises the power of
prophesying, as taught originally in the Cevennes.
The good dame was not reading this morning, although the volume
before her lay open. Her glasses lay upon the page, and she sat
musing by the open window, seldom looking out, however, for her
thoughts were chiefly inward. The return of Pierre Philibert, her
foster child, had filled her with joy and thankfulness, and she was
pondering in her mind the details of a festival which the Bourgeois
intended to give in honor of the return of his only son.
The Bourgeois had finished the reading of his packet of letters, and
sat musing in silence.
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