"It is but fitting that, being dead, honour and reverence should be shown his body." "Then let those who have themselves been honoured by the Condillacs honour this dead Condillac now.

The Church is not of that number, monsieur.

Since the late Marquis's death the house of Condillac has been in rebellion against us; our priests have been maltreated, our authority flouted; they paid no tithes, approached no sacraments.

Weary of their ungodliness the Church placed its ban upon them under this ban it seems they die.

My heart grieves for them; but--" He spread his hands, long and almost transparent in their leanness, and on his face a cloud of sorrow rested.
"Nevertheless, Father," said Garnache, "twenty brothers of Saint Francis shall bear the body home to Condillac, and you yourself shall head this grim procession." "I ?" The monk shrank back before him, and his figure seemed to grow taller.