We have a shop close by, where you will find an assortment of all the articles that are most in request.

As a rule, the persons who stay here are kind enough not to deal elsewhere." However, Majeste was again wagging his head, with the air of a good Christian saddened by the scandals of the time.

"Certainly," said he, "I don't want to show any disrespect to the reverend Fathers, but it must in all truth be admitted that they are too greedy.

You must have seen the shop which they have set up near the Grotto, that shop which is always crowded, and where tapers and articles of piety are sold.

A bishop declared that it was shameful, and that the buyers and sellers ought to be driven out of the temple afresh.