Everything is very fine, and very rich, and very superb, and very magnificent, said my father, addressing himself to the sacristan, who was a younger brother of the order of Benedictines —but our curiosity has led us to see the bodies, of which Monsieur Sequier has given the world so exact a description.—The sacristan made a bow, and lighting a torch first, which he had always in the vestry ready for the purpose; he led us into the tomb of St. Heribald ⸺This, said the sacristan, laying his hand upon the tomb, was a renowned prince of the house of Bavaria , who under the successive reigns of Charlemagne , Louis le Debonnair , and Charles the Bald , bore a great sway in the government, and had a principal hand in bringing everything into order and discipline⸺
Then he has been as great, said my uncle, in the field, as in the cabinet⸺I dare say he has been a gallant soldier⸺He was a monk—said the sacristan.
My uncle Toby and