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Following Pere LaChance’s harrowing sermon about the havoc that lurked and preyed upon weak backboned doubters, and while parishioners gathered in small and larger groups debating how best to deal with the fountain waters, Soeur Sophie limped quietly towards the convent.
Soeur Sophie did see the bus pulling up just outside the square, but never gave it a second thought until much later.
Ever since 1982 when some association of the tourism industry had invented the concept of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France(The most beautiful villages of France), buses weighed down by tourists had been rolling into Provenance and promptly rolling away after a leisurely lunch and a brief shopping excursion at the local artisan shops.
On this Sunday however, when the bus sputtered away with a slightly lighter load down the steep mountain outside Provenance, three passengers were left behind. The trio stood next to their suitcases in the square looking a little bewildered, but mostly bursting with expectation.
(. . .)
Soeur Sophie did see the bus pulling up just outside the square, but never gave it a second thought until much later.
Ever since 1982 when some association of the tourism industry had invented the concept of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France(The most beautiful villages of France), buses weighed down by tourists had been rolling into Provenance and promptly rolling away after a leisurely lunch and a brief shopping excursion at the local artisan shops.
On this Sunday however, when the bus sputtered away with a slightly lighter load down the steep mountain outside Provenance, three passengers were left behind. The trio stood next to their suitcases in the square looking a little bewildered, but mostly bursting with expectation.
(. . .)