For the mass of devout people, who believe without thinking, religions only differ in their exterior forms.

It would be impossible to consign such a multitude to the bonfires, or that half Europe should again be in the clutches of the thirty years' war, or that the Popes should launch excommunication after excommunication, only to find in the end that the only difference between a Catholic or an evangelical church is a few images and a few wax tapers, but that the worship in both is the same.

But we must go, Gabriel; they are going to lock up." The bell-ringer was hurrying through the naves, shaking his bunch of keys and startling the bats which were becoming more and more numerous.

The two devout women had disappeared; no one remained in the Cathedral save Gabriel and the Chapel-master.

From the farther end of the nave were coming the night watchmen, to take up their charge till the following morning, preceded by the dog.
The two friends went out into the cloister, guided through the dusk by the rich glow from the stained glass windows; outside, the last rays of the sun were touching both the garden and the cloister of the Claverias with crimson.
"I repeat," continued the musical priest, looking back at the door from which they had come out, "that in there they do not love music and they do not understand it.