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He even reverted to past scenes, and spoke of the mutual frolics of their youth, with a cheerfulness bordering on levity; but this pained Henry the more, for he saw in it but the fruit of a forced excitement as melancholy in adoption as pernicious in effect and his own heart repugned all participation in so unnatural a gaiety, although, he enforced himself to share it to the outward eye.
"Some approved it," says Knox, "and willed the same have been set forth by law. Everything that repugned to their corrupt affections was termed in their mocking 'devout imaginations." After long and heated debates, no definite conclusion was reached. The old clergy should be allowed to retain their livings on condition of their maintaining Protestant ministers in their respective districts.
At one extremity was the point whence he had witnessed the dreadful tragedy of Halloway's death; at the other, that on which had been deposited the but too unerring record of the partial realisation of the horrors threatened at the termination of that tragedy; and whenever he attempted to pass each of these boundaries, he felt as if his limbs repugned the effort.
"Everything that repugned to their corrupt affections was termed in their mockage 'devout imaginations," says Knox: and it was no doubt Lethington from whose quiver this winged word came, with so many more.
He even reverted to past scenes, and spoke of the mutual frolics of their youth, with a cheerfulness bordering on levity; but this pained Henry the more, for he saw in it but the fruit of a forced excitement as melancholy in adoption as pernicious in effect and his own heart repugned all participation in so unnatural a gaiety, although, he enforced himself to share it to the outward eye.
Of a surety avarice cannot have assailed me for a man of little account; needs must this who seemeth to me a losel be some great matter, since my soul hath thus repugned to do him honour."
At one extremity was the point whence he had witnessed the dreadful tragedy of Halloway's death; at the other, that on which had been deposited the but too unerring record of the partial realisation of the horrors threatened at the termination of that tragedy; and whenever he attempted to pass each of these boundaries, he felt as if his limbs repugned the effort.
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