[The Long Night by Stanley Weyman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Long Night CHAPTER XVII 22/29
'Tis not the religion.
'Tis the way men live it! Was John Bernardino of Assisi, whom some call St.Francis, a worse man than Arnold of Brescia, the Reformer? Or is your Beza a better man than Messer Francis of Sales? Or would the heavens fall if Geneva embraced the faith of the good Archbishop of Milan? Words, Messer Blondel, believe me, words!" "Yet men die for them!" "Not wise men.
And when you have died for them, who will thank you ?" The Syndic groaned.
"Who will know, or style you martyr ?" Basterga continued forcibly.
"Baudichon, whom you have called a fat hog? He will sit in your seat.
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