Your lordship's charity has made you poor; but, thank God, I am not poor--but in a position to place L200 in your hands to enable you to bear the expenses of your voyage, and to maintain your ecclesiastical rank and position for a time, when you get there." "Oh," replied the bishop, "if I were once there, very little money would be necessary; I could almost immediately get a professorship of divinity, especially in the College of Louvain, where I held a professorship for several years." It was arranged that the bishop should go, at least until the times should change, and in the course of a week, Reilly having furnished him with the necessary funds, he departed and reached the Continent in safety.
Their separation was extremely affecting.

The bishop wept bitterly, not only in consequence of his parting with Reilly, but still more because he was forced to separate himself from his flock.

Reilly was deeply affected, nor could he restrain his tears.

The bishop put his hand on his head and blessed him.

"I feel," said he, "as if it were a prophetic impulse, that God will bring you out of the tribulations that encompass you.