"
"The Earl of Surrey is an apostate, who has opened his ear and heart
to the doctrines of Calvin!"
"Then let his head fall, for he is a criminal before God, and no one
ought to have compassion on him! And what is there that we lay to
the charge of the father?"
"The Duke of Norfolk is well-nigh yet more dangerous than his son;
for although a Catholic, he has not nevertheless the right faith;
and his soul is full of unholy sympathy and injurious mildness. He
bewails those whose blood is shed because they were devoted to the
false doctrine of the priests of Baal; and-he calls us both the
king's blood-hounds."
"Well, then, cried Gardiner with an uneasy, dismal smile," we will
show him that he has called us by the right name; we will rend him
in pieces!"
"Besides, as we have said, the Howards stand in the way of our
schemes in relation to the queen," said Earl Douglas, earnestly.
"The king's mind is so completely filled with this one hatred and
this one jealousy, that there is no room in it for any other
feeling, for any other hate. It is true he signs often enough these
death-warrants which we lay before him; but he does it, as the lion,
with utter carelessness and without anger, crushes the little mouse
that is by chance under his paws. But if the lion is to rend in
pieces his equal, he must beforehand be put into a rage. When he is
raging, then you must let him have his prey. The Howards shall be
his first prey.
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