As its far easier fellow. Yesterday

I trudged the distance from The Ravissante

To Clairvaux, with my two feet: but our friend,

The more to edify the country-folk,

Was wont to make that journey on both knees.

"Maliciously perverted incident!"

Snarled the retort, when this was told at Vire:

"The man paid mere devotion as he passed,

Knelt decently at just each wayside shrine!"

Alas, my lawyer, I trudged yesterday—