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for unmarried priests, and others for un- 

 married nuns, and permitting them to have 

 communication one with the other, looked to 

 him a rather strange and suspicious affair, 

 especially when some of the nuns were such 

 lovely creatures ; but the Church of Rome 

 allowed it, and Roman Catholics did not 

 mind it, and young girls were infatuated with 

 it. He had said that teaching people to con- 

 fess was only a sly contrivance to draw out 

 of them all their secrets; but if people had 

 a mind to tell their secrets, what was that to 

 any one else? He had said that the wax- 

 candles, flowers, incense, bells, alarums, the 

 red and yellow robes, the large gold mitre, 

 the bowings, kneelings, turnings, walkings, 

 and all the rest of the doings in the Roman 

 worship, were nothing better than a panto- 

 mime, and were only fit to please a set of 

 boys and girls and old women ; but there 

 were a goodly number of other persons 

 besides old women and children who seemed 

 to like it for all that. He had said that 

 purgatory was only an invention to get the 

 money out of people's pockets, for praying 

 their relations out of it ; but if people liked 

 to give the priests the money, what was that 



