[Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan]@TWC D-Link bookSalute to Adventurers CHAPTER XXVII 24/31
Think you Alison Steel would not be black ashamed if she heard the horrid tale ?" "'Twas the Lord's commands," he said gloomily, but there was no conviction in his words. I changed my tone.
"Do you dare to speak such blasphemy ?" I cried.
"The Lord's commands! The devil's commands! The devil of your own sinful pride! You are like the false prophets that made Israel to sin.
What brings you, a white man, at the head of murderous savages ?" "Israel would not hearken, so I turned to the Gentiles," said he. "And what are you going to make of your Gentiles? Do you think you've put much Christianity into the heart of the gentry that were watching your antics last night ?" "They have glimmerings of grace," he said. "Glimmerings of moonshine! They are bent on murder, and so are you, and you call that the Lord's commands.
You would sacrifice your own folk to the heathen hordes.
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