Carhaix, indignant.
"Yes, he celebrated another kind of mass, too, that abbe did.

It was called--hang it--it's unpleasant to say--" "Say it, Monsieur des Hermies.

When people have as great a hatred for that sort of thing as we here, they need not blink any fact.

It isn't that kind of thing which is going to take me away from my prayers." "Nor me," added her husband.
"Well, this sacrifice was called the Spermatic Mass." "Oh!" "Guibourg, wearing the alb, the stole, and the maniple, celebrated this mass with the sole object of making pastes to conjure with.

The archives of the Bastille inform us that he acted thus at the request of a lady named Des Oeillettes: "This woman, who was indisposed, gave some of her blood; the man who accompanied her stood patiently beside the bed where the scene took place, and Guibourg gathered up some of his semen into the chalice, then added powdered blood and some flour, and after sacrilegious ceremonies the Des Oeillettes woman departed bearing her paste." "My heavenly Saviour!" sighed the bell-ringer's wife, "what a lot of filth." "But," said Durtal, "in the Middle Ages the mass was celebrated in a different fashion.