I am wrong, however, in saying that it could.

Mr.Hastings, a generous and liberal Protestant, took it in his own name for my father, but gave me a deed of assignment, placing it as securely in my hands, and in my power, as if I were Sir Robert Whitecraft himself; and I must add--which I do with pleasure--that the deed in question is now in the possession of the Rev.Mr.Brown, the amiable rector of the parish." "But he is a heretic," said a red-faced little man, dressed in leather breeches, top boots, and a huntsman's cap; _vade retro sathanas_, It is a damnable crime to have any intercourse with them, or to receive any protection from them: _vade retro, sathanas_." "If I don't mistake," said the cook--an archdeacon, by the way--"you yourself received protection from them, and were glad to receive it." "If I did receive protection from one of their heretic parsons, it was for Christian purposes.

My object was not so much to seek protection from him as to work out his salvation by withdrawing him from his heresy.

But then the fellow was as obstinate as _sathanas_ himself, and had Greek and Hebrew at his fingers' ends.

I made several passes at him--tried Irish, and told him it was Italian.