Your look, which seeks only God and heaven, does not always see the petty and pitiful things that happen here on the earth below." "Oh, but," said Gardiner, with a cruel smile, "I see them, and it charms my eye when I see how God's vengeance punishes the enemies of the Church here on earth.

Set up then, by all means, a stake or a scaffold for these Howards, if their death can be to us a means to our pious and godly end.

You are certain of my blessing and my assistance.

Only I do not quite comprehend how the Howards can stand in the way of our plots which are formed against the queen, inasmuch as they are numbered among the queen's enemies, and profess themselves of the Church in which alone is salvation." "The Earl of Surrey is an apostate, who has opened his ear and heart to the doctrines of Calvin!" "Then let his head fall, for he is a criminal before God, and no one ought to have compassion on him! And what is there that we lay to the charge of the father ?" "The Duke of Norfolk is well-nigh yet more dangerous than his son; for although a Catholic, he has not nevertheless the right faith; and his soul is full of unholy sympathy and injurious mildness.

He bewails those whose blood is shed because they were devoted to the false doctrine of the priests of Baal; and-he calls us both the king's blood-hounds." "Well, then," cried Gardiner with an uneasy, dismal smile, "we will show him that he has called us by the right name; we will rend him in pieces!" "Besides, as we have said, the Howards stand in the way of our schemes in relation to the queen," said Earl Douglas, earnestly.