"'You have built a Church ?' VOLTAIRE.

"'True; and it is the only one in the Universe in honor of God [DEO EREXIT VOLTAIRE, as we read above]: you have plenty of Churches built to St.Paul, to St.Genevieve, but not one to God.'" EXIT Sherlock (to his Inn; makes jotting as above;--is to dine at Ferney to-morrow).
SCENE III.

DINNER-TABLE OF VOLTAIRE.
"The next day, as we sat down to Dinner," our Host in the above shining costume, "he said, in English tolerably pronounced:-- VOLTAIRE.

"'We are here for liberty and property! [parody of some old Speech in Parliament, let us guess,--liberty and property, my Lords!] This Gentleman--whom let me present to Monsieur Sherlock--is a Jesuit [old Pere Adam, whom I keep for playing Chess, in his old, unsheltered days]; he wears his hat: I am a poor invalid,--I wear my nightcap.'...
"I do not now recollect why he quoted these verses, also in English, by Rochester, on CHARLES SECOND:-- 'Here lies the mutton-eating King, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.' But speaking of Racine, he quoted this Couplet (of Roscomman's ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE):-- 'The weighty bullion of one sterling line Drawn to French wire would through whole pages shine.
SHERLOCK.

"'The English prefer Corneille to Racine.' VOLTAIRE.