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Updated: May 27, 2025
"A heretic, hopelessly damned by anticipation, if that of yonder travelling prayer-monger be the true faith;" answered one who was pressing past, with a quiet assurance that had near carried its point without incurring the risks of the usual investigation into his name and character.
"A brown-back a funeral-follower a prayer-monger," he growled, brushing his immense moustaches upwards, to emphasize his scorn. "Hush," Susanna remonstrated, lifting her hand. "You must n't rail against religion." "I do not rail against religion," answered the Commendatore. "Taken in moderation, religion is an excellent thing for women. Did I not see that you were religiously brought up?
In former days I used to have Mass said in the Chapel at Les Ilettes by a poor devil of a Curé who used to say in his cups: 'Don't let's speak ill of sinners; we live by 'em, we priests, unworthy as we are! You must agree, sir, this prayer-monger held sound maxims of government. We should adopt his principles, and govern men as being what they are and not what we should like them to be."
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