The Steam-Packet: A Tale of the River and the Ocean — page 145: what you’re looking at

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104 THE STEAM PACKET. been the abode of the archdeacon of the cathedral, whose fanes: were uprooted and cloisters levelled; and a fearful legend attached itself © to that dwelling of supposed sanctity. ‘The commissioner of the Hotel Canon d’Or, who accompanied one party of the Luminaries to the inspection of these ruins, and who spoke English with considerable fluency, related the particulars of that narrative,—with much more ° succinctness, however, than we have observed in recording the oe m the ensuing chapter. CHAPTER XI. we WHICH THE LEGEND Soe eet WITH THE OLD MANSION At SAINT OMERS Is NARRATED. — ‘Vy ¥ AT the time when the French Re- ‘volution of 1792 broke out, the archdeacon of the eathedral of Saint Omers was the Count Hya- - cinth Saint Honoré; and he resided in the magnificent dwelling over- looking the church, and which at the present day is, as well as the sacred fane itself, crumbling into | Sey AM ruins. The archdeacon was a LY | Wig Wo) ‘e ig young man, if his high and import- aa OEY ant office be taken into considera- tion : he had numbered but thirty-six summers when that dread ebulli- tion of popular feeling and indignation burst forth,—when the knell of the old society was rung by the hand of young Liberty,—and when all things ancient—grandeur, aristocracy, royalty, religion, and superstition —were passing away. Saint Honoré was, moreover, a handsome man, with a fine high intellectual forehead, eyes that seemed to speak the lan- guage of an impassioned soul, and a figure, the admirable proportions of which could ‘not be concealed by even the monkish gown. There was also an air of aristocracy and superiority about the priest, which mate- rially aided his high rank in producing a deep impression upon the multitude; and the presumed sanctity of his character, and known charity of his disposition, inereased his other claims upon ae respect and estimation. ’ A slight cause for scandal, however, occurred, at the death of EComichbooks. co