Corregio and Johanna of Placentia Views of the Catholic Question. Les Rochers de Mad. de Sévigné . ib. 176 177 178 179 180 181 183 184 185 187 189 190 192 193 195 197 211 213 215 216 217 218 220 221 223 252 306 309 316 THE BOOK OF THE BOU DO I R. RELIGIOUS AUSTERITY. It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures (or, at least, who are thought so) mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind, propitious offerings to that deity, whose works are all light, and lustre, and harmony, and loveliness. I have just had a visit from a pair of papistical pietists, in such a state of attenuation, that they look as if they had escaped from a besieged town after a month's famine. They had been keeping black lent (a fast, I believe, now peculiar to Ireland) which it would be difficult to persuade a Roman |