[Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson]@TWC D-Link bookCome Rack! Come Rope! CHAPTER II 10/21
I would that they were all discreet, but they are not.
We will name no names, if you please; but some of them are unreasonable altogether and think nothing of bringing us all into peril." He began to bite his beard again. "Do you think the Commissioners will visit us again ?" asked Anthony. "Mr.Fenton was telling me--" "It is Mr.Fenton and the like that will bring them down on us if any will," burst out Mr.FitzHerbert peevishly.
"I am as good a Catholic, I hope, as any in the world; but we can surely live without the sacraments for a month or two sometimes! But it is this perpetual coming and going of priests that enrages her Grace and her counsellors.
I do not believe her Grace has any great enmity against us; but she soon will, if men like Mr.Fenton and Mr.Bassett are for ever harbouring priests and encouraging them.
It is the same in London, I hear; it is the same in Lancashire; it is the same everywhere.
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