However, he was baptized, and declared a man provisionally [till time should show what he would prove].

Nature had moulded him so untowardly, that he was called all his life the Abbot Malotru; i.e.ill-shaped.

He was of Caen.
(Menagiana, 278, 430.) This child, we see, was very near being excluded out of the species of man, barely by his shape.

He escaped very narrowly as he was; and it is certain, a figure a little more oddly turned had cast him, and he had been executed, as a thing not to be allowed to pass for a man.

And yet there can be no reason given why, if the lineaments of his face had been a little altered, a rational soul could not have been lodged in him; why a visage somewhat longer, or a nose flatter, or a wider mouth, could not have consisted, as well as the rest of his ill figure, with such a soul, such parts, as made him, disfigured as he was, capable to be a dignitary in the church.] 27.