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Dooll, but the mutton good -- Les Bains de Sextius -- Ironwork caps to towers -- S. Jean de Malthe -- Museum -- Cathedral -- Tapestries and tombs -- The cloisters -- View from S. Eutrope -- King René of Anjou -- His misfortunes -- His cheeriness -- His statue at Aix -- Introduces the Muscat grape.
I had a friend, a parson, a good fellow, who was some years ago in Cumberland, where he was concerned about the spiritual condition of the neighbouring parsons. Among these latter was one, very bucolic, with a heavy red face. My friend urged him to take advantage of a "retreat," that is a gathering of clergy for devotion and meditation, that was to take place in Carlisle. After some persuasion the heavy-souled parson agreed to go, and my dear good friend hoped that some spark of spiritual zeal might be thus kindled in him.