These worthies suffer in the flesh and do penance all their lives, I suppose, but they look like consummate famine-breeders.

They are all fat and serene.
The old Cathedral of San Lorenzo is about as notable a building as we have found in Genoa.

It is vast, and has colonnades of noble pillars, and a great organ, and the customary pomp of gilded moldings, pictures, frescoed ceilings, and so forth.

I cannot describe it, of course--it would require a good many pages to do that.

But it is a curious place.
They said that half of it--from the front door halfway down to the altar -- was a Jewish synagogue before the Saviour was born, and that no alteration had been made in it since that time.