The Pope was not swift enough for some, and too swift for others.

He had thundered too soon, said one party, if, indeed, it was right to thunder at all, and not to wait in patience till the Queen's Grace should repent herself; and he had thundered not soon enough, said the other.

Whence it may at least be argued that he had been exactly opportune.

Yet it could not be denied that since the day when he had declared Elizabeth cut off from the unity of the Church and her subjects absolved from their allegiance--though never, as some pretended then and have pretended ever since, that a private person might kill her and do no wrong--ever since that day her bitterness had increased yearly against her Catholic people, who desired no better than to serve both her and their God, if she would but permit that to be possible.
II It would be an hour later that they bid good-bye to Mr.Thomas FitzHerbert, high among the hills to the east of the Derwent river; and when they had seen him ride off towards Wingerworth, rode yet a few furlongs together to speak of what had been said.
"He can do nothing, then," said Robin; "not even to give good counsel." "I have never heard him speak so before," cried Anthony; "he must be near mad, I think.

It must be his marriage, I suppose." "He is full of his own troubles; that is plain enough, without seeking others.