For my own part, I feel as little compunction to the task, as the thunderbolt launched from on high does for the tree it shivers." "Philip Grant has uttered my sentiments exactly," said the man who, it has been mentioned, spoke with a slight foreign accent.

"I have neither misgiving nor compunction.

You appear to have forgotten your own denunciations, brother." "Not so, Brother Hubert," rejoined the enthusiast, "and I now recognise in the vision a delusion of the Evil One to turn me from my holy purpose.

But it has failed.

The impious and impenitent city is doomed, and nothing can save it.