"Let me take him in hand.

You don't know how to question him." Then accosting me, in a defiant sort of way (he was far from sober), he said, "Hark ye, young man.

Now answer for your life.

Give us no double meanings.

What is your religion ?" "That which was brought us and taught us by our Lord Jesus Christ." "Do you believe in St.Peter ?" "Of course." "And in the Virgin Mother of God ?" "The angel Gabriel called her blessed among women." "But do you worship her ?" "I reverence her, and worship her Divine Son." "Do you worship her, I say ?" threatening me with the stirrup-leather.
"Son, son," put in my father.
"Silence, old man!" and they hit him on the mouth.
"Do you worship her ?" "I do not." Then they beat the soles of my feet, till my father in anguish cried, "Oh, I cannot bear this--" but had to bear it.