A REASON.

AS a nobleman was receiving from Louis XIII. the investiture of an

Ecclesiastical Order, and was saying, as is usual on that occasion,

_Domine, non sum dignus._--"Lord, I am not worthy." "I know that well

enough," replied the king, "but I could not resist the importunity of my

cousin Cardinal Richelieu, who pressed me to give it you."

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