Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

204 DANGER IN THE DARK.
" The object is, of course, to build up the Church j
and by whatever means that can be accomplished,
they are satisfied. When the Catholic clergy of the
United States get things properly into their own
hands, they'll not want so many schools."
" No, I reckon not j but God forbid they ever should
get things, into their own hands, in that free and
heaven-favored country! I'd weep to think that glo·
rious land of liberty, would ever bow the neck to
papal despotism!"
" You presume too much, Mrs. Foresti, on the be-nevolence
of my nature j I doubt if there's another
Catholic husband in Rome, or in all Italy, to whom a
wife could with impunity say as much against the
Church, as you repeatedly and habitually utter in my
hearing. 'T is unaccountable, that you dare speak so
freely, when you know it becomes my religious duty to
inform against you."
"Such a duty, my love, I 'm well satisfied, you possess
too much of 'the milk of human kindness' ever
to discharge."
"The thought of having you brought before the
holy Inquisition, is heart-rending to me !"
"You'd risk hell first, my darling!"
"Nothing so much grieves me, as the heresy and
republican principles that poison your mind."
" I own that I'm a heretic and a republican, in the
estimation of Rome j and I rejoice in it!"
" It shocks me to hear you say so ; for lighter offenses,
many have been condemned to torture and death."