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Since the late alliance, it is our duty to consider all Frenchmen as enemies, though it by no means follows that we are to consider them as pirates." "But their corsairs seize all our craft, Signore, and treat their people as if they were no better than dogs; then, they tell me that they are not Christians no, not even Luterani or heretics!"
Porto Ferrajo would soon be too hot to hold an honest man aye, or even an honest woman in the bargain." "But the Luterani do not confess, and are never shrived at all, you will remember." "San Stefano! How do they expect, then, ever to get to heaven?" "I will not answer that they do, friend Vito and we are certain that if they have such expectations they must be most treacherous to them.
Had these things come from Luterani, it might have been borne; but they say the Francese were once all good Catholics!" "So were the Luterani, bella Benedetta, to their chief schismatic and leader, the German monk himself."
Nothing has troubled me more than this same matter of religion." "Ah! you sailors do not disquiet your souls with such thoughts, if the truth must be said. Well, we will be indulgent on this subject though, out of doubt, you and all your people are Luterani?" "Set us down as what you please," answered the captain, with an ironical smile. "Our fathers, at any rate, were all good Catholics once.
"There, again, good Vito, it is different with the Luterani and us Catholics. The priests of England, you will please remember, marry, while ours do not." "I should not like to be shrived by such a padre! The man would be certain to tell his wife all I confessed; and the saints could only say what would be the end on't.
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