The shareholders met, when it appeared that one party wished to make it a Roman Catholic, and the other an atheist organ.

Whereupon the existence of God was put to the vote and carried by a majority of one, at which the atheist party were so disgusted that they seceded in a body.
I got to like Mohl much, and had more conversation, I think, with him than with any other of the numerous men of note with whom I became more or less acquainted.

On another occasion, when I found him in his cabinet, walled up as usual among his books, our talk fell on his great work, the edition of the oriental MSS.

in the _Bibliotheque Royale_, which was to be completed in ten folio volumes, the first of which, just out, he was showing me.

He complained of the extreme slowness of the Government presses in getting on with the work.