— Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex. — Pascal was a pig, said Cranly. — Aloysius Gonzaga, I think, was of the same mind, Stephen said. — And he was another pig then, said Cranly. — The church calls him a saint, Stephen objected. -I don’t care a flaming damn what anyone calls him, Cranly said rudely and flatly. I call him a pig. Stephen, preparing the words neatly in his mind, continued: — Jesus, too, seems to have treated his mother with scant courtesy in public but Suarez, a jesuit theologian and Spanish gentleman, has
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