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river fish, some sixteen pounds weight : and thus the little 

 party of cultivated gentlemen and ladies were able to live, 

 though in poverty, yet sumptuously. 



The Bishop had given jMonsignor F permission to 



perform service on any of his father s estates. So a little 

 chapel was built ; the family and servants attended every 

 Sunday, and many days in the week ; and the country folk 

 from great distances found their way through the woods to 

 hear Mass in the palm-thatched sanctuary of " El Eiposo." 



So did that happy family live '' the gentle life " for some 

 two years ; till cacao rose again in price, the tax on the 



churches was taken off, and the F s returned again to 



the world : but not to civilization and Christianity. Those 

 they had carried with them into the wilderness ; and those 

 they brought back with them unstained. 



