After a while, he took up the manuscript, laid it down again, and said that of course, from the ecclesiastical point of view, there would naturally be some objections.
"The details of the history are not altogether correct.

I know, Ferleitner, that you asked me for a copy of the New Testament.

If I had known that you had gone so far, I would willingly have given you one.

But perhaps it is better so.

Though I must tell you, Conrad Ferleitner, that nothing has given me so much pleasure for a long while as these meditations and--I may also say--fancies of yours.