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"'Nay, said Don Sebastian; 'but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me. I go for it; but are you well advised? this may grow too serious. "'Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don? "'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now, said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risks of the archiepiscopacy.
"'Nay, said Don Sebastian; 'but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me. I go for it; but are you well advised? this may grow too serious. "'Will you be so good as to bring the priest also, Don? "'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now, said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy.
That was all very well; but, besides, he got his head filled with the strange old legends which are contained in those venerable books; and when, in my hours of comparative quiet, he bestirred himself to talk to me on 'entertaining' subjects, what I heard of was war and pestilence, monstrous abortions, hurricanes, comets, fires and floods, witches, auto-da-fé's, enchantments, miracles, and, above all other subjects, his talk was of the manifold works and devices of the Devil who, as we know, plays such an important part in all those old stories that one can hardly imagine what has become of him now, when he seems to keep so quietly in the background, unless he may perhaps have put on some new dress which renders him unrecognizable.
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