The things we do!

B.'s, you may fancy, with what a panic
it filled the good and pious lady. Her son become a Protestant! After all
the grief and trouble his wildness had occasioned to her, Paul forsake
his religion! But that her husband was so ill and aged as not to be able
to bear her absence, she would have hastened to London to rescue her son
out of that perdition. She sent for her younger son, who undertook the
embassy; and the Prince and Princesse de Moncontour, in their hotel at
London, were one day surprised by the visit of the Abbe de Florac.
As Paul was quite innocent of any intention of abandoning his religion,
the mother's kind heart was very speedily set at rest by her envoy. Far
from Paul's conversion to Protestantism, the Abbe wrote home the most
encouraging accounts of his sister-in-law's precious dispositions. He had
communications with Madame de Moncontour's Anglican director, a man of
not powerful mind, wrote M. l'Abbe, though of considerable repute for
eloquence in his Sect.


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