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Adventures in Foreign Accent
Wood, Eugene | August 10, 1921 issue

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For the sight of the heretic jumping up and down in the fire few could have had the anaesthesia of Archbishop Cranmer, who is said to have held his right hand in the blaze till it charred to a stump-and the sound of the heretic's yells of agony must have been, as the phrase goes, "too horrible to think about." Whereas the unending disadvantages of heresy, the withdrawal of trade, the continual nagging, the exclusion of the eldest son from Columbia, in a manner of speaking--these were just horrible enough to think of all the time, and must have inured much to the benefit of the One True Faith, whatever that happened to be.

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