_ 77 _ his business, and tell him what he should do. It was a large business, because this man has twelve thousand pardões of revenue every year. I am going to give him and his wife the Spiritual Exercises, and many others in this city. In the meantime, the principal men of this city requested me to hold one of the keys of the Royal Factory, and the captain another, for better security, but I would not do it, because it is no function of mine to have to do with such low matters as money. When I came to this land there were some men here who, because they were great sinners, dared not confess to anyone save to me. Among them was one who was very tempted by the devil not to confess to me until I was leaving. But the good angel inspired him to confess at once, and the man realized that he was in need of confession. At last, he confessed, which put me in great confusion because I reckon that of all the thousands of confessions I have heard since I joined the Society, this one included them all and much more, the Lord be praised. This man, doing a penance I set him at night, to be absolved next day, shut himself up in a hen-house, and they made such a commotion that the poor man, terrified by the noise, commended himself to the image with loud
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