![]() ![]() The fugitive priest cannot help but contrast the sordid idea of prison with the peace and gentleness of this "nearly free" state. One priest, however, committed an offense apparently so heinous that he was jailed for a week. In this Mexican Shangri-La, priests are virtually inviolate, although they might incur a slight fine for dispensing the sacraments. ![]() Even the pages of the magazine are clean and crackling Lehr leafs through it as he gazes at his mountain pasture, whose grasses sway in the wind. Lehr scans a three-week-old New York magazine, which contains pictures of legislators whose well-stuffed and clean-shaven faces suggest the priest's former years. In the Lehrs' house, all news is outdated, contrasting with the imminence of the priest's flight. Accordingly, Greene's description of the Lehrs' house suggests the dreamlike, transitory nature of the priest's stay in this oasis of "the good life." The details used to depict the Lehr family are diametrically opposed to those of the preceding chapters, and the priest's reaction to the Lehrs reveals several previously undeveloped aspects of his character. ![]() This chapter is a romantic idyll in the midst of the priest's harrowing, ambiguous quest for self-reform. ![]()
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