[The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cloister and the Hearth CHAPTER XI 4/13
He has got clear.
Up I go, and see." "No, Giles, no!" said the superior intelligence, blinded by prejudice. "See you not this is glamour? This rope is a line the evil one casts out to wile thee to destruction.
He knows the weaknesses of all our hearts; he has seen how fond you are of going up things.
Where should our Gerard procure a rope? how fasten it in the sky like this? It is not in nature. Holy saints protect us this night, for hell is abroad." "Stuff!" said the dwarf; "the way to hell is down, and this rope leads up.
I never had the luck to go up such a long rope.
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