We prefer the homes of the persons attached to our order; these we find everywhere." "Why do you not ask hospitality in the convents of your order ?" "I am not so foolish.

In the first place, I should not be admitted, because, being a fugitive, I have not the written obedience which must be shown at every convent, and I should even run the risk of being thrown into prison; your monks are a cursed bad lot.

In the second place, I should not be half so comfortable in the convents as I am with our devout benefactors." "Why and how are you a fugitive ?" He answered my question by the narrative of his imprisonment and flight, the whole story being a tissue of absurdities and lies.

The fugitive Recollet friar was a fool, with something of the wit of harlequin, and he thought that every man listening to him was a greater fool than himself.
Yet with all his folly he was not went in a certain species of cunning.
His religious principles were singular.

As he did not wish to be taken for a bigoted man he was scandalous, and for the sake of making people laugh he would often make use of the most disgusting expressions.