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Pleased with royal blandishments, and highly enjoying the splendid hospitalities of England he quite forgot the "thirty thousand devils" whom he had left running loose in the Netherlands, while these wild soldiers, on their part, being absolutely in a starving condition for there was little left for booty in a land which had been so often plundered now had the effrontery to apply to the Prince of Parma for payment of their wages.
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Behold therefore upon thee also hath he poured forth the riches of his mercy, and hath called thee that wert afar off from him in heart, and didst serve others, not Gods, but pernicious devils and dumb and senseless wooden images.
"Stay, stay," cried one of the devils, "ye deserve a better place," and he pitched them down amongst conquerors and murderers. There were vast numbers in here for playing false dice and cheating at cards, but before I had time to observe them closely, I could hear by the door a huge crowd in wild tumult and shouts hai, hw, ptrw- how-ho-o-o-p as of cattle being driven along.
"Even as we talk this thing over, those devils in human form are at work impoverishing the atmosphere, the very basis of all life. My oxymeter, today, showed a diminution of .047 per cent. in the amount of free oxygen in the air right on this mountain. And their plant is hardly running yet!
"You're making game o' me!" "On the contrary, I'm very serious! Don't you see, Diana, that all demons and devils are a means to our ultimate good?" "No, I don't! How can they be?"
The market-towns have also mandarins of lesser rank in charge, besides a host of revenue collectors, the bureau of government works and other departments, with several hundred thousand officials, who all rank as gods beyond the grave. These deities are civilians; the military having a similar gradation for the armies of Hades, whose captains are gods, and whose battalions are devils.
The church of England is like the apostle that forbade the man casting out devils, and got forbid himself for it with this difference that she won't be forbid. Well, she chooses her portion with Dives and not Lazarus. She is the most arrant respecter of persons I know, and her Christianity is worse than a farce. It was that first of all that drove me to doubt.
Then she would be lost, and devils would do in hell the worst torment which Unorna could not do on earth. A crime a robbery, a murder it must be done in the convent. Unorna hesitated, bending her brows and poring in imagination over the dark catalogue of all imaginable evil. A momentary and vague terror cast its shadow on her thoughts.
Abbot Agathon used to say, "I never went to sleep with a quarrel against any man; nor did I, as far as lay in me, let one who had a quarrel against me sleep till he had made peace." Abbot Isaac was asked why the devils feared him so much. "Since I was made a monk," he said, "I settled with myself that no angry word should come out of my mouth."
He told them how the fortunes of Florence were again, as ever before, triumphant, how the devils of Arezzo had been taught a lesson they would not be likely to forget in a hurry, and, furthermore, how much Florence owed to the splendid assistance given to her arms by Messer Griffo of the Dragon-flag and his Free Companions.
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