Excerpt from Casella, or the Children of the Valleys Every means was resorted to by the Pr0pagandists to achieve the aims of their society. The lady Prop agandists,' writes Leger, 'distributed the towns into districts, and each visited the district assigned to her twice a week; suborning simple girls, servant-maids, and young children, by their flattering allurements and fair promises, and doing evil turns to such as would not listen to them. They had their Spies everywhere, who, among other information, ascertained in what Protestant families domestic disagreements existed; and hither would the Propagandists repair, stirring up the flame of dissension in order to separate the husband from the wife, the wife from the husband, and children from their parents; promising them, and, indeed, giv ing them, great advantages, if they would consent to attend mass. Did they hear of a tradesm'an whose business was falling off, or of a gentleman who from gambling or otherwise was in want of money, these ladies were ever at hand, with their dabo tibi, on the condition of apostasy; and the prisoner was in like manner released from his dungeon, who would give. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.