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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER IV
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Popery is ever at work, whilst Protestantism is supine.

A pretty church, indeed, the Protestant! Why, it can't even work a miracle." "Can your church work miracles ?" I demanded.
"That was the very question," said the man in black, "which the ancient British clergy asked of Austin Monk, after they had been fools enough to acknowledge their own inability.

'We don't pretend to work miracles; do you ?' 'Oh! dear me, yes,' said Austin; 'we find no difficulty in the matter.

We can raise the dead, we can make the blind see; and to convince you, I will give sight to the blind.

Here is this blind Saxon, whom you cannot cure, but on whose eyes I will manifest my power, in order to show the difference between the true and the false church;' and forthwith, with the assistance of a handkerchief and a little hot water, he opened the eyes of the barbarian.


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