Some of the citizens were laughing around him.
"Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I perceive that I shock you.

You think it very arrogant in a poor priest to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ.

I have done so from necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." In the course of these trips he was kind and indulgent, and talked rather than preached.

He never went far in search of his arguments and his examples.

He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example of a neighboring district.