Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on this conduct of the Bishop, “ It is affectation. ”

This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and admired him.

As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, and it was a long time before he recovered from it.