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The Black Robe

CHAPTER II
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Knowing your strict sense of honor, my son, and your admirable tenderness of conscience, I wish you to be satisfied of the title of the Church to the lands of Vange, by evidence which is beyond dispute." With this little preface, he waited while Penrose read the title-deeds.
"Any doubt on your mind ?" he asked, when the reading had come to an end.
"Not the shadow of a doubt." "Is the Church's right to the property clear ?" "As clear, Father, as words can make it." "Very good.

We will lock up the documents.

Arbitrary confiscation, Arthur, even on the part of a king, cannot override the law.

What the Church once lawfully possessed, the Church has a right to recover.

Any doubt about that in your mind ?" "Only the doubt of _how_ the Church can recover.


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