aited expectantly to receive it from the Bishop's own hands. But Martin, after drinking himself, passed the ~ goblet to his priest, holding that no one had a better right to ~ drink immediately after himself and that it would not be honest of him to give precedence over the priest either to the Emperor or to those who ranked next to him. The Emperor and all who were present were so struck by this action that the very gesture by which they had been humiliated became for them a source of pleasure. And the news went all round the palace that Martin had done at the Emperor's table what no other bishop would have done even when dining with the least of his magistrates.