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(Bon vin and Ion Latin rhyme in French.) This 

 morning I have said bonus instead of oonum because 

 the wine was of inferior quality, and to-night the wine 

 being superior I say bonum, not bonus, just at that mo- 

 ment 1 was like the Bishop, I could not wait longer so 

 I asked : Are you not the man who came to visit me 

 many years ago? No, he said, Mr. Menand, I have 

 never come to Albany or Troy before to-day ! So in 

 face of that affirmation I could not tell him he LIED, 

 notwithstanding my moral convictions. "We continued 

 to drink and talk and I recounted the incident of " my 

 Latin Post scriptum" I have related before in my 

 recollections. Then he put his hand on my shoulder 

 and said : " You ! Mr. Menand ! you have done such 

 thing as destroying a letter of a priest. I answered 

 that I had done it and was proud of it. His remark 

 convinced me he was a priest, but not that he was the 

 man who had visited me twice before. It was not a 

 very long time after, that in a moment of mental aber- 

 ration^ for Jesuits ! who seldom forget themselves, al- 

 ways on the lookout to entrap any body body and 

 soul ! and more than loth if you have it, little or much 

 (money). This last article is equal to God in their re- 

 ligious statutes and dogmas. " Nervus belli pecunia," 

 " Money is the nerve of war," whether you wage it, 

 (war) to nations or to consciences ! it does not matter as 



