Yet Clarke lay still in his noisome prison, excommunicate, and in danger of death at the stake, whilst they stood free men, reconciled to the church, and restored to her favour.
Whose position was that of most true blessedness?
Garret twisted his hands nervously together as this flood of thought came surging over him.
"They say that Clarke would have been there," spoke young Fitzjames, "but that he was too enfeebled by captivity to walk in the procession." "That is false," said Freda, in a low voice.

"Master Clarke might have won his liberty with the rest, but he refused to take any part in the spectacle today at Carfax." "Yet he never circulated the books," broke out Garret.

"He ofttimes cautioned me against importing too many of the treatises written in Germany.

He would not approve all that they contained.

He could have cast such books upon the flames without violating his conscience.