death itself, and the most violent tortures, for the sake of this

Father Simon was appointed, it seems, by order of the chief of the

mission, to go up to Pekin, and waited only for another priest, who

was ordered to come to him from Macao, to go along with him. We

scarce ever met together but he was inviting me to go that journey;

telling me how he would show me all the glorious things of that

mighty empire, and, among the rest, Pekin, the greatest city in the

world: "A city," said he, "that your London and our Paris put