A complete espionage is exercised in papal countries, from the Adriatic to the Californian gulf.

And the greater portion of this is accomplished by means of the confessional.

The Superior at Rome can become, at pleasure, as perfectly conversant with your domestic arrangements, and the thousand incidents which daily occur, as you or I, who are cognizant of them.

To what is all this tending?
Ah, Florry, look at the blood-stained records of the past.

The voices of slaughtered thousands, borne to us across the waste of centuries, bid us remember the Duke of Alva, the Albigensian crusade, the massacre of St.Bartholomew, and the blazes of Smithfield.