So he resolved to return to Paris, and carried out the resolution with his usual promptitude.

Jean de Civigny held a great fete in honour of his return, although he had lost hope of his coming back converted.

But he left time for him to settle down before he spoke of anything, thinking there would be plenty of time to hear the bad news he expected.

But, after a few days of rest, Abraham himself came to see his friend, and Jean ventured to ask what he thought of the Holy Father, the cardinals, and the other persons at the pontifical court.

At these words the Jew exclaimed, "God damn them all! I never once succeeded in finding among them any holiness, any devotion, any good works; but, on the contrary, luxurious living, avarice, greed, fraud, envy, pride, and even worse, if there is worse; all the machine seemed to be set in motion by an impulse less divine than diabolical.