Your riches and your pleasures are advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates that I shall not make use of them.

I promise you to make no use of them in the future." "I thank you," said the Bishop.
G---- resumed.
"Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me.

Where were we?
What were you saying to me?
That '93 was inexorable ?" "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop.

"What think you of Marat clapping his hands at the guillotine ?" "What think you of Bossuet chanting the Te Deum over the dragonnades ?" The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness of a point of steel.

The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet.