The last touch made the grand-prior of the cathedral wince a little, but it was welcomed with a roar from the multitude.

Let us be thankful that we have in Wit a power before which the pride of wealth and the insolence of office are abased; which can transfix bigotry and tyranny with arrows of lightning; which can strike its object over thousands of miles of space, across thousands of years of time; and which, through its sway over an universal weakness of man, is an everlasting instrument to make the bad tremble and the foolish wince.

'Father,' said she, 'what have you done with Lucien?' I saw his impassive face wince for a moment before the passionate hatred and contempt which he read in her eyes.

" "Then you mean that this poor Molinos may rot and starve, while you keep secret from him, at his wife's request, his title to an income, and that the Court of Chancery will back you in this iniquity?" I kept repeating the word "starve," because I saw it made my respectable opponent wince.

" This made the sufferer wince.

The cost of the palings made the vicar wince; his lady set it duly down to debit.