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The friar asked him if he had heard mass that morning, whereto he promptly answered, 'Ay have I, sir. Quoth the inquisitor, 'Heardest thou aught therein whereof thou doubtest or would question? 'Certes, replied the good man, 'I doubt not of aught that I heard, but do firmly believe all to be true.

It would not be very difficult for us to imagine a tender-hearted Inquisitor of this stamp, stifling his weak compassion for the shrieking wretch under bodily torment by his strong pity for souls in danger of perdition from the sufferer's heresy. We all know with what satisfaction the gentle-spirited Melanethon heard of the burning of Servetus, and with what zeal he defended it.

The people in the village knew nothing about them had seen nothing particular in the woman or child had always supposed them mother and daughter; and the gentleman identified by the clerical inquisitor with the banker had never but once been observed in the place.

Peter Titelmann, too, the famous inquisitor, who, retired from active life, was then living upon Philip's bounty, and encouraged by friendly letters from that monarch, expressed the same opinion. Having been informed that Egmont and Horn had been captured, he eagerly inquired if "wise William" had also been taken. He was, of course, answered in the negative.

She had her reasons for the fib, but, not knowing what they were at the moment, I started violently, and the inquisitor turned upon me. "Do you, young man, wish to make any remark?" "I wish to say " I began. The Dominican turned to his colleagues. "He denies that she is of Siena; therefore, probably she has spoken the truth. We will inscribe her so.

Always, after these encounters, Douglas knew how to come back, with a graver tone, to the larger issue, as if they, and not he, were trying to obscure it. A spectator might have fancied that these high-minded men were culprits, and he their inquisitor.

Out fly my best thoughts, my finest figures, my sharpest epigrams, without chloroform, and I give no sign. I have heard that successful authors can always have everything their own way. I must be the greatest or the smallest failure of the age. "It will be much better to omit this," says the High Inquisitor, turning the thumb-screw. "No," I writhe. "Take everything else, but leave that."

I suppose you recognized yourself in one of the society columns of the "Household Inquisitor:" "Mrs. E. K., very beautiful, in an elegant," etc., etc, "with pearls," etc., etc., as if you were not the ornament of all that you wear, no matter what it is! I am so glad that you have married a scholar!

Thereupon Titelmann sentenced him to the stake. He was strangled and then thrown into the flames. At about the same-time, Thomas Calberg, tapestry weaver, of Tournay, within the jurisdiction of this same inquisitor, was convicted of having copied some hymns from a book printed in Geneva. He was burned alive.

"Because, you very clever inquisitor, though I went to the Pineta with her, I did not say that I had come back with her." "The deuce you did not! Did another gentleman undertake the duty of escorting the lady back to town?