These were simply oratorical figures, for I know well enough that you have no saint.

Had you one, he would immediately be cautioned by the police, or sent to China by the Church." "Well," di Leyni replied, "what if he were cautioned ?" "Cautioned to-day, he would be imprisoned to-morrow." "And what of that ?" the young man repeated.

"How about St.Paul, Abbe Marinier ?" "Ah! my friend! St.Paul, St.Paul--" By this unfinished sentence the Abbe Marinier probably meant to convey that St.Paul was St.Paul.Di Leyni, on the other hand, reflected that Marinier was Marinier.

Don Clemente remarked that not all saints could be sent to China.

Why should not the saint of the future be a layman?
"I believe he will be," exclaimed Padre Salvati, The enthusiastic Don Fare, on the contrary, was convinced that he would be a Sovereign Pontiff.