You have heard, perhaps, of his arrest ?" "No," answered Clarke; "we have but just arrived, and the last fifteen miles we came by water in a wherry.

The man knew naught of the talk of the town, save that a great burning of books is to take place on the morrow at Paul's Cross." "Ay," spoke Garret, with a grim compression of the lips, "a mighty burning of forbidden books will take place there.

But mark, my friends; had those books yonder been found in Dr.Barnes's house, not books alone but the man himself would have been burnt upon the morrow.

The cardinal plainly told him so; and as it is, he has signed a paper which they call a recantation of heresy.

Let us not judge him harshly.