little Ginx. Whatever swaddled infant could do in the way of
opposition, with hands, and legs, and voice, was done by that
embryo saint. The incense made him cough and sputter; the
lights and singing raised the very devil within him. His cries
drowned the prayers. He frightened his conductress by the
redness of his face. He ruined the red cross with ejected
matter. You would have taken him for an infant demoniac. Mother
Suspiciosa, though annoyed, was encouraged. She looked upon this
as an evident testimony to little Ginx's value. The devil and
St. Michael were contending for his body. At length he was
baptized, and carried out. Credat Judaeus. He instantly sank
into a deep sleep. It was a miracle: Satan had yielded to the
sign of the cross!


IV.--Law on Behalf of Gospel.

In the moment of Sister Suspiciosa's triumph, the enemy was
laying his train against her. The little man made his report to
the secretary of the Protestant Detectoral Association. This
gentleman was well-born and well-bred; moved to work in this
"cause" by an honest hatred of superstition, priestcraft, and
lies; now giving all his energies to the ambitious design of
pulling down the strongholds of Satan. In any other matter he
could act coolly, and with deliberation; in this he was an
enthusiast. He had a keen Roman nose. He could scent a priest
anywhere in the United Kingdom. He could smell Jesuitry in the
Queen's drawing-room, a cabinet council or convocation, though he
had never been at either. His eye was beyond a falcon's; he saw
things that were invisible. It penetrated through all disguises.