But come, sir. And now, let's see who'll refuse the pledge. If I am to die in the attempt, then so be it. It is an Occidental point of view. If ever I did meet a man I could love, I should love him”—her voice dropped again—“platonically. The Protestant Flagellant, who whipped his soul rather than his body, who made self-denial the rack and the boot, who believed that on Sunday it was sacrilegious to smile, blasphemous to laugh! Spurlock had gone back spiritually three hundred years. It was true. Loving was self-forgetfulness, pure delighting in another human being. CHAPTER VII The astonishing collapse of Spurlock created a tableau of short duration. There was a gallows erected, and a great mob round it—thousands of people, and all with white faces like corpses. “Don’t fence with me,” Anna cried fiercely. Cool and sunny, it seemed that God himself smiled upon that day, the sunbeams streaming through the magnificent arches dustily as the priest murmured in soporific Latin. Perhaps her granddaughter might marry his grandson. Then she reverted to the trousers.
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