27/46 "A Grand-Master or something." "But who is Felsenburgh ?" put in a young priest. He was one of those humble persons as proud of ignorance as others of knowledge. He boasted that he never read the papers nor any book except those that had received the _imprimatur_; it was a priest's business, he often remarked, to preserve the faith, not to acquire worldly knowledge. Percy had occasionally rather envied his point of view. They were selling his 'Life' to-day on the Embankment." "I met an American senator," put in Percy, "three days ago, who told me that even there they know nothing of him, except his extraordinary eloquence. |