All the curious and tattling population of the idlest of cities, the Jesuits and the prelates of the French faction only excepted, laughed at Castelmaine's discomfiture.

His temper, naturally unamiable, was soon exasperated to violence; and he circulated a memorial reflecting on the Pope.

He had now put himself in the wrong.
The sagacious Italian had got the advantage, and took care to keep it.

He positively declared that the rule which excluded Jesuits from ecclesiastical preferment should not be relaxed in favour of Father Petre.

Castelmaine, much provoked, threatened to leave Rome.