49/61 And when he was dying he sent for his old parish priest--who used to denounce him from the pulpit and loved him all the same! "And don't make any secret of it!" he said to me. "Bring him in openly--let all the world see. _Non crubesco evangelium!_"' The young man stopped--reddened and a little abashed by his own eloquence. The North will never understand the South--never! You can't understand our _a peu pres_. You think Catholicism is a tyranny--and we must either let the priests oppress us, or throw everything overboard. |