5/10 My countrymen are many here, and he is stronger than all. You and I have thwarted him, and the walls of a far off convent are our destination--you, and your cousin, and myself. I am at heart no Catholic; I have seen the devil, if there be one, in my confessor. I have heard him lie, and seen him take the widow's and the orphan's portion. Mary, if there was a God, would he suffer such as my Padre to minister in his holy place, and touch the consecrated vessels? |