The sum total is, that he earns more than I do, but in spite of this he considers his employment beneath him.

And such beautiful duties, too.

To walk in the great processions before everyone, close to the Primate's great banner, with a staff covered with red velvet to support him should he chance to fall, and wearing a robe of scarlet brocade like a cardinal.

Our Chapel-master, who knows a great deal about such things, says that when he wears that robe he looks like a certain Diente, or some name of the sort, who lived hundreds of years ago in Italy, and went down into hell, and afterwards described his journey in poetry." [Footnote 3: _Perrero_--Beadle whose special duty it is to chase the dogs out of church.] Sounds of footsteps were heard on the narrow circular staircase in the thickness of the wall that led from the sitting-room to the storey above.
"It is Don Luis," said the "Wooden Staff," "he is going to say his mass in the chapel of the Sagrario, and afterwards to the choir." Gabriel rose from his sofa to salute the priest.

He was feeble and small of stature, but the thing about him that struck you at first sight was the disproportion between his shrunken body and his immense head.