The image, bedizened and effulgent, was borne aloft upon the shoulders of her adorers, followed by the guilds, the military associations, the rhetoricians, the religious sodalities, all in glittering costume, bearing blazoned banners, and marching triumphantly through the streets with sound of trumpet and beat of drum.

The pageant, solemn but noisy, was exactly such a show as was most fitted at that moment to irritate Protestant minds and to lead to mischief.

No violent explosion of ill-feeling, however, took place.

The procession was followed by a rabble rout of scoffers, but they confined themselves to words and insulting gestures.

The image was incessantly saluted, as she was borne along--the streets, with sneers, imprecations, and the rudest, ribaldry.