The Bishop, As I Have Remarked, Was

I Often Remembered Also That I Had Been Told, That We Shall Have As Many Devils Biting Us, If We Go To Hell, As We Have Unconfessed Sins On Our Consciences.

Priests, She Insisted, Could Not Sin. It Was A Thing Impossible. Everything That They Did, And Wished, Was Of Course Right. She Hoped I Would See The Reasonableness And Duty Of The Oaths I Was To Take, And Be Faithful To Them.

My Parents Were Both From Scotland, But Had Been Resident In Lower Canada Some Time Before Their Marriage, Which Took Place In Montreal; And In That City I Spent Most Of My Life.

I Must Be Informed, That One Of My Great Duties Was, To Obey The Priests In All Things; And This I Soon Learnt, To My Utter Astonishment And Horror, Was To Live In The Practice Of Criminal Intercourse With Them.

Great Dislike To The Bible Was Shown By Those Who Conversed With Me About It, And Several Have Remarked To Me, At Different Times, That If It Were Not For That Book, Catholics Would Never Be Led To Renounce Their Own Faith.