If thy devotion were altogether true,” Danny McCray Jerseyhe said, “it would be less clamorous; but it is well to do what is good in itself, even if it is a hypocrite who recommends it. — Let us enter this holy chapel, and pray for a fortunate issue to our precarious travels.”The pardoner caught up the last words.“Sure was I,” he said, “that your worship is too well advised pass this holy place without imploring the protection and influence of Our Lady of the Ferry. Tarry but a moment until I find the priest who serves the altar, that he may say a mass on your behalf.”Here he was interrupted by the door of the chapel suddenly opening, when an ecclesiastic appeared on the threshold. Philipson instantly knew the Priest of Saint Paul’s, whom he had seen that morning at La Ferette. DeMarco Murray Jersey Bartholomew also knew him, as it would seem; for his officious hypocritical eloquence failed him in an instant, and he stood before the priest with his arms folded on his breast, like a man who waits for the sentence of condemnation.
“Villain,” said the ecclesiastic, regarding the guide with a severe countenance, “dost thou lead a stranger into the houses of the Holy Saints, that thou mayst slay him, and possess thyself of his spoils? But Heaven will no longer bear with thy perfidy. Back, thou wretch, to meet thy brother miscreants, who are hastening hitherward. Tell them thy arts were unavailing,
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But first, wherefore are you alone? I trust naught evil hath befallen your young companion?”My son,” said Philipson, “crosses the Rhine at yonder ferry, as we had important business to transact on the other side.”As he spoke thus, a light boat, about which two or three peasants had been for sonic time busy, was seen to push from the shore,
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Brandon Jacobs Jersey“Great reason have you to return thanks to Heaven.Of that I am convinced,” replied Philipson; “but yet from you I hope to learn the special cause of
