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Updated: June 18, 2025
That her best service to God is to bring up her children in the love of what is good and true, in filial obedience and fraternal affection. But it avails not. "And now, Mrs. Andrews," continued the lady, not in the least appearing to notice the distress and confusion of her over-pious friend, whom she had placed upon the rack, "When God comes to make up his jewels, and says to Mrs.
The king had forbidden that the churches should be opened except on Sunday and the regular fete days. Some over-pious and fanatical preachers had dared to disobey this order. The assemblies had been broken up by force of arms, the people driven to their homes, and the churches closed.
The messenger found him hearing mass, at which the prince being enraged, muttered something in abuse of over-pious persons. But the marquis having evinced the greatest heroism during the engagement, said after it to the prince, "Your highness, I fancy, now sees that those who pray to God behave as well in battle as their neighbours." Breton Peasants.
There are some over-pious Christian people who think if you take any profit on anything you sell that you are an unrighteous man. On the contrary, you would be a criminal to sell goods for less than they cost. You have no right to do that. You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own. You cannot trust a man in your family that is not true to his own wife.
With these he scourges the over-pious as religious parasites, who for safety's sake prefer to believe too much rather than too little.
It was a mere youthful folly, he would cut down his expenses when he married. The price of every automobile was greatly increased on crossing the frontier. And after that, politicians expected progress and regeneration! He had been educated by the Jesuits at the University of Deusto and had his degree in law. But that had not made him over-pious.
Our hero, finding himself in this condition, began to ejaculate a round of blasphemies, which the reader, without being over-pious, might be offended at seeing repeated. Heartfree, as the unhappy occasion of his present sufferings.
The Church had proved as maternal as the mother. Without being over-pious or ridiculous, the idolized young lad was a fervent Catholic. For this son, so noble, so innocent, the baroness desired to provide a happy life in obscurity. She expected to inherit some property, two or three thousand pounds sterling, from an aunt.
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