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‘Yes, for sure the lawyer will come down with him. I say lawyer,
but who is he? Nobody knows. They say he has killed men with his
own hands and never told it in confession. But those hard kinds of
men, they always weep when they see the hangman.’







the foreshadowing....

"More would have been a priest, but human flesh
called to him with its inconvenient demands. He did not want to be a
bad priest, so he became a husband. "

"If another man were saying this, he'd be trying to start a fight. When
Thomas More says it, it leads to an invitation to dinner"

"The English will never be forgiven
for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get
off their own island. English armies laid waste to the land they moved
through. As if systematically, they performed every action proscribed
by the codes of chivalry, and broke every one of the laws of war. The
battles were nothing; it was what they did between the battles that left
its mark. "

‘The harvest is passed, the
summer is ended, and we are not saved.’
The small child Grace wakes in the night and says that she sees her
mother in her shroud. She does not cry like a child, noisy and
hiccupping, but like a grown woman, weeping tears of dread.
‘All the rivers run into the sea, but the seas are not yet full.’

He would like her to shorten her account, but he understands her
need to tell it over, moment by moment, to say it out loud. It is like a
package of words she is making, to hand to him: this is yours now.

"It's two o'clock, then it's three; sometimes it's freeing, to think you
don't have to go to bed because there isn't a bed. He doesn't need to
think of going home; there's no home to go to, he's got no family left.
He'd rather be here drinking with Cavendish, huddled in a corner of the
great chamber at Esher, cold and tired and frightened of the future,
than think about his family and what he's lost."





Huh? Lost?