Like most of his class, however, he seemed to be influenced by that extraordinary anomaly which characterizes the saints—­that is to say, as great a reverence for the name of the devil as for that of God himself; for in his whole life and conversation he was never known to pronounce it as we have written it.  Satan—­the enemy—­the destroyer, 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 could for his life determine whether the man before him belonged to idolatrous Rome on the one hand, or the arch heresy on the other.