'Una fides, unus Dominus,' that is my device in life." "You hear that!" cried Celeste, triumphantly, looking at Felix Phellion.
"I am not openly devout," continued la Peyrade.

"I go to mass at six every morning, that I may not be observed; I fast on Fridays; I am, in short, a son of the Church, and I would not undertake any serious enterprise without prayer, after the ancient fashion of our ancestors; but no one is able to notice my religion.

A singular thing happened to our family during the Revolution of 1789, which attached us more closely than ever to our holy mother the Church.

A poor young lady of the elder branch of the Peyrades, who owned the little estate of la Peyrade,--for we ourselves are Peyrades of Canquoelle, but the two branches inherit from one another,--well, this young lady married, six years before the Revolution, a barrister who, after the fashion of the times, was Voltairean, that is to say, an unbeliever, or, if you choose, a deist.
He took up all the revolutionary ideas, and practised the charming rites that you know of in the worship of the goddess Reason.

He came into our part of the country imbued with the ideas of the Convention, and fanatical about them.