devote the leisure they would thus obtain to the further
exercise and development of what someone had called "the
starfire of the Celtic nature." Ireland should look upon
England as her working-housekeeper. And as for the addition of
Irish saints to the Calendar, the stumbling-block was their
excessive number. "'T is an embarrassment of riches. If we
were once to begin, we could never leave off till we had
canonised nine-tenths of the dead population."

Monsignor Langshawe, at this (making jest the cue for earnest),
spoke up for Scotland, and deplored the delay in the
beatification of Blessed Mary. "The official beatification,"
he discriminated, "for she was beatified in the heart of every
true Catholic Scot on the day when Bloody Elizabeth murdered
her."

And Madame de Lafere put in a plea for Louis XVI,
Marie-Antoinette. and the little Dauphin.

"Blessed Mary--Bloody Elizabeth," laughed the Duchessa, in an
aside to Peter; "here is language to use in the presence of a
Protestant Englishman."

"Oh, I'm accustomed to 'Bloody Elizabeth,'" said he. "Was n't
it a word of Cardinal Newman's?"

"Yes, I think so," said she. "And since every one is naming
his candidate; for the Calendar, you have named mine. I think
there never was a saintlier saint than Cardinal Newman."