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"You would like a death-mass fee, Abbé?" The Canadian, brought up to other customs, wondered how a priest could be addressed with such contempt by good Catholics. "Is he a monk or a curé?" he inquired, when the reader had passed on. "He is nothing," answered d'Estaing, with clear eye and scornful lip. "Paris is devastated by fellows calling themselves abbés.
He seated himself near the entrance, listening to the ringing voice of the bell, and recalling that the death-mass had now commenced in Berlin. The service sacred to memory! The prayer for the immortal soul! As the lonely king sat there, calm and bowed down, a solemn prayer and holy mass rose from his own soul.
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