I remember only a few months ago, having occasion for a Bible, going to an establishment, the object of which was to send Bibles all over the world.

The supporters of that establishment could have no self-interested views; for I was supplied by them with a noble-sized Bible at a price so small as to preclude the idea that it could bring any profit to the vendors." The countenance of the man in black slightly fell.

"I know the people to whom you allude," said he; "indeed, unknown to them, I have frequently been to see them, and observed their ways.

I tell you frankly that there is not a set of people in this kingdom who have caused our church so much trouble and uneasiness.

I should rather say that they alone cause us any; for as for the rest, what with their drowsiness, their plethora, their folly, and their vanity, they are doing us anything but mischief.
These fellows are a pestilent set of heretics, whom we would gladly see burnt; they are, with the most untiring perseverance, and in spite of divers minatory declarations of the holy father, scattering their books abroad through all Europe, and have caused many people in Catholic countries to think that hitherto their priesthood have endeavoured, as much as possible, to keep them blinded.