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Monseigneur, as a class, had dissociated himself from the

phenomenon of his not being appreciated: of his being so little

wanted in France, as to incur considerable danger of receiving

his dismissal from it, and this life together. Like the fabled

rustic who raised the Devil with infinite pains, and was so

terrified at the sight of him that he could ask the Enemy no

question, but immediately fled; so, Monseigneur, after boldly

reading the Lord's Prayer backwards for a great number of years,

and performing many other potent spells for compelling the Evil

One, no sooner beheld him in his terrors than he took to his

noble heels.