[The Right of Way Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Right of Way Complete CHAPTER XXXI 14/25
the Governor is a Protestant--eh? That is, indeed, a zeal almost Christian--or millennial." The Abby turned to the Seigneur.
"Are you going to interfere longer with the process of the law ?" "I think Monsieur has not quite finished his argument," said the Seigneur, with a twist of the mouth. "If the man was a Frenchman, why do you suspect the tailor of Chaudiere ?" asked Charley softly.
"Of course I understand the reason behind all: you have heard that the tailor is an infidel; you have protested to the good Cure here, and the Cure is a man who has a sense of justice, and will not drive a poor man from his parish by Christian persecution--without cause.
Since certain dates coincide and impulses urge, you suspect the tailor.
Again, according to your mind, a man who steals holy vessels must needs be an infidel; therefore a tailor in Chaudiere, suspected of being an infidel, stole the holy chalices.
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