See Escritos de Santa Teresa, "Libro de su vida," capítulo 31, in the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, Madrid, Rivadeneyra, 1861, p. 94. L'Abbé Jean Joseph Gaume has written a work, entitled l'Eau lénite au XIXe siècle (Paris, 1866), in which he also advocates the use of holy water to-day for similar purposes.

His clothes were soaked and gaumed up with mud from his tramping and crawling through the marshes; but otherwise he looked as fresh as if he had just risen from his bed, while the negro seemed ready to drop.

And, in fact, Des Esseintes discovered that all the ecclesiastics wrote in the same manner, with a little more or a little less abandon or emphasis, and there was seldom any variations between the bodiless patterns traded by Dupanloup or Landriot, La Bouillerie or Gaume, by Dom Gueranger or Ratisbonne, by Freppel or Perraud, by Ravignan or Gratry, by Olivain or Dosithee, by Didon or Chocarne.