"_Monsieur le bon Dieu_ is very impartial! Some serve Him by constant over-feeding, others by constant over-starving; it is all one to Him apparently! How do you know which among His servants He likes best, the fat or the lean ?" Sandy Macfarlane, though slightly a bigot for his own form of doctrine, broke into a low chuckle of irrepressible laughter at Duprez's levity, but Mr.Dyceworthy's flabby face betokened the utmost horror.
"Sir," he said gravely, "there are subjects concerning which it is not seemly to speak without due reverence.

He knoweth His own elect.

He hath chosen them out from the beginning.

He summoned forth from the million, the glorious apostle of reform, Martin Luther--" "_Le bon gaillard!_" laughed Duprez.

"Tempted by a pretty nun! What man could resist! Myself, I would try to upset all the creeds of this world if I saw a pretty nun worth my trouble.