"I defy you to find my equal—I know but one man."
"And who is he? I should like to know him."
"Oh, it is useless, he is already placed, and, as his place is good, he would not change it for all the archbishoprics in the world."
"Insolent!"
"With whom are you angry, monseigneur?"
"With a fellow who wants to be an archbishop, and who has never yet officiated at the communion table."
"I shall be all the better prepared."
"But the archdeaconship, the deaconship, the priesthood."
"Bah! We will find somebody; some second Jean des Entomeures, who will dispatch all that in an hour."
"I defy you to find him."