Vat shall I do vid dis image ?" "I give it up," observed the stranger, passing his hand over the head and down its side.

"I am not very much on saints--wooden ones, I mean.
He seems a good deal out of place here.

Why buy such things at all, and why sell them?
But that, of course, is not your point of view.

I would send it back to the good father, if I were you, and have him put it behind the altar if he is ashamed to put it in front.

Holy things belong to holy places.