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But now the blow had fallen, and the old man, too ill-instructed to hear the accents of new truth in the shouting of that noisy crowd and the crash of his images, was on his knees before the altar where he had daily offered the holy sacrifice through all those troublous years, faithful to what he believed to be God's truth, now bewailing and moaning the horrors of that day, and, it is to be feared, unchristianly calling down the vengeance of God upon his faithless flock.
Schwartzmann, worst off of all, lying in a heap, groaning at intervals, but apparently quite unaware of what was going on. My abrupt sally seemed transfixing. I might have been Medusa. I had a welcome minute in which to contemplate the victims of my prowess and to exult unchristianly in their scars. Then the tableau dissolved, the three men sprang up, and I took action.
They have never meant these women any ill they would not harm them for the world but they are conscious of a selfish and most unchristianly pleasure in these conquests of female natures these parlor triumphs, God forgive them!
He is but the cutler's friend and the chirurgeon's agent, the thief's companion and the hangman's benefactor. He was begotten untimely and born unhappily, lives ungraciously and dies unchristianly. He is of no religion nor good fashion; hardly good complexion, and most vile in condition. In sum, he is a monster among men, a Jew among Christians, a fool among wise men, and a devil among saints.
I do not forgive: I am at heart serious and I cannot forgive: there is no possible reconciliation, there can be only an ostensible truce, between the two hostile powers dividing this world." She glanced at him quickly. "Good and evil!" he said. Her face expressed a surprise relapsing on the heart. He spelt the puckers of her forehead to mean that she feared he might be speaking unchristianly.
But what did he do? Shut comfortably up in his luxurious palace where no harm could touch him, where no crucifixion of the heart or soul could torture him, he announced to his myrmidons his opinion that the wretched martyr would be found guilty! And who can tell but that his utterance thus unchristianly proclaimed did not help to sway the minds of the Rennes Court-martial?
The man whom they called Master Christopherus made a slow, wide gesture of deprecation. The Archbishop took the word. "Too much! You ask a hundred times too much! I must say to you that it is unchristianly arrogance. You talk like a soldan!" An assenting murmur came from the other ecclesiastics. The Queen spoke.
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