[The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibanez]@TWC D-Link bookThe Shadow of the Cathedral CHAPTER VII 2/53
Tell him that I shall forget it all as I have known him since his childhood, and that I remember he was the pride of our seminary, but more especially because he is ill, and it would be inhuman to drive him out of the Cathedral; but he must not repeat this scandal.
Silence! Let him keep all those atrocities in his own head, if it so pleases him to lose his soul; but in this holy house, and especially before its staff, not a word.
Do you understand? not a word.
The next thing will be that he will hold meetings in the Holy Metropolitan Church.
Besides, your brother must remember that, after all, at this moment, he is eating the bread of the Church, as he lives on you, and is supported by you, and it is not right to speak in this way of the most excellent work of God, and try to point out all its defects." This last consideration weighed the most with Gabriel, and it wounded his dignity.
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