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"'scholars always manage to dig out something belittling,' he complained."

"He had a pleasant awakening from sleep..He recovered consciousness slowly, unwilling to let go of a pleasing delusion that he was in Rome.

"They lingered over these memories - an indulgence they seldom permitted themselves."

"The Lord had made few uglier men...his countenance had little to recommend it but kindliness and vivacity...there was certainly nothing in his outer case to suggest the fierceness and fortitude and fire of the man...everybody believed in Father Vaillant - homely, real , persistent, with the driving power of a dozen men in his poorly built body."

"I supposed he would be willing to rest to-day; but not a bit of it. You know his motto, 'Rest in action.'"

"The young Bishop's pen flew over the paper, leaving a trail of fine, finished French script behind, in violet ink.
...'I wish that you, and my dear sister, could look in upon this scene of comfort and peace.'"

"[it] had that irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

"old men trying to remember their catechism to teach their grandchildren. The Faith planted by the Spanish friars and watered with their blood was not dead; it awaited only the toil of the husbandman."

"When [he] asked her to give him his portion without chili, the girl inquired whether it was more pious to eat it like that. He hastened to explain that Frenchmen, as a rule, do not like high seasoning, lest she should hereafter deprive herself of her favorite condiment."

"here he lay in comfort and safety, with love for his fellow creatures flowing like peace about his heart."