The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary

upon.... [There follows a curiously modern discussion on what I may call the gospel of Pleasure, which is a very different thing from the gospel of Joy. The former, as Sir John po

r where he had lately seen the King, and was allowed to stand by the window,

established on God's Will. He did not know then what kind of a fit it was into which the King had fallen, nor why it was that himself should

, and once or twice the sound of glass on glass. Wi

the others, by the will of the writer; so that when violence is done, or injustice, or hard words spoken, or death suffered, it is all part of the agreed plan and must not be resisted nor questioned, else all will be spoiled. It appeared to him to

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nd presently one came out from it in the black dress of a physician. He was a pale man

h his face worked, and

r Ric

tely across the floor and t

m, with my lord cardinal, the nobles that had been in the palace at the time of the King's seizure. My lord cardinal was standing by the chair, very stern and anxiou

rve them closely at that time;

t from the room, Master Richard said; and Master Richard knew at once what it was that he was seeing. It was that of which the holy youth had spoken; and was nothin

his lips to the white right-hand, seeing as he did so the red ring on the first finger. My lord c

our Lord had not intended it at first. The message of the passion and death

nd these were the words

t He bore for our salvation is wrought out in the Body which is His Church, and especially in those members, which, like His sacred hands and feet, receive the nails into themselves. Happy are those members that re

they do so, and to your honour. For so they named our Saviour. All who set not their minds

is to be. In this manner the passion is borne a thousand times a day, by foreknowledge; and for every such pain there is a joy awarded. It is for t

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not answer it. (It was so with him often afterwards: he would sit thus without speaking or answering what was said to him: he would go thus to mass and dinner and to bed, as pale as a spirit: he would even ride thus among his army, with his crown

red with his own blood, that spoke so eloquently. But when he had done and had kissed the white hand again, my lord cardinal came forward, pushed him aside, and himself began to speak in a voice that w

to see if any there understood. But they were all dumb, except for muttering, and gave him black looks, and blessed themselves as their eyes m

etained, when all others were erased.] came and whispered in my lord's ear as he knelt at the King's knees. My lord turned his head and nodded, and Master Richard was seized from behind and pulled through the door. The man who

Master Richard was to be taken down and kept close, until t

h the guard-room into one of the little cells: and a

e, quid me caedis? ["If I have spoken ill, give testimony of t

Disquisition on

nubis loque

the pillar of the