royer,
were the names he applied to him: and this, we presume, lest the world
might suspect that there subsisted any private familiarity between them.
His great ruling principle, however, originated in what he termed a
godless system of religious liberality; in other words, he attributed
all the calamities and scourges of the land to the influence of Popery.
and its toleration by the powers that be. He was a big-boned, coarse
man, with black, greasy hair, cut short; projecting cheek-bones, that
argued great cruelty; dull, but lascivious eyes; and an upper lip like a
dropsical sausage. We forget now the locality in which he had committed
the offence that had caused him to be brought there. But it does
not much matter; it is enough to say that he was caught, about three
o'clock, perambulating the streets, considerably the worse for liquor,
and not in the best society. Even as it was, and in the very face of
those who had detected him so circumstanced, he was railing against the
ungodliness of our "rulers," the degeneracy of human nature, and the
awful scourges that the existence of Popery was bringing on the land.

As it happened, however, this worthy representative of his class was
not without a counterpart among the moral inmates of the watch-house.
Another man, who was known among his friends as a Catholic voteen, or
devotee, happened to have been brought to the game establishment, much
in the same circumstances, and for some similar offence. When compared
together, it was really curious to observe the extraordinary resemblance
which these two men bore to each other. Each was dressed in sober
clothes, for your puritan of every creed must, like his progenitors the
Pharisees of old, have some peculiarity in his dress that will gain him
credit for religion. Their features were marked by the same dark, sullen
shade which betokens intolerance. The devotee was thinner, and not so
large a man as the other; but he made up in the cunning energy which
glistened from his eyes for the want of physical strength, as compared
with the Protestant saint; not at all that he was deficient in it _per
se_, for though a smaller man, he was better built and more compact than
his brother. Indeed, so nearly identical was the expression of their
features--the sensual Milesian mouth, and naturally amorous temperament,
hypocrisized into formality, and darkened into bitterness by bigotry
--that on discovering each other in the watch-house, neither