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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...himself to that mystically holy body, the clergy, was something so new and startling that long after the crowd had begun to disperse, Conrad still leaned back in his litter, gazing at the grand old man who wielded such a mighty power in England. As soon as the space round the preacher was somewhat cleared, Sir John Oldcastle and Jerome Faulfisch pressed forward to speak to him. He greeted the two friends warmly, and as he passed near the litter he paused and spoke a few words to Conrad--words that won the boy's heart at once. "Thou wouldst be brave, and do a man's work in the world; in any case, my little knave, pray that thou mayest be brave, and do God's work." Conrad bowed his head. "Wilt thou pray for me, worshipful sir?" he murmured. "Ah, that will I; and this thy friend, Jerome of Prague, will do the same, for thou art of kin to him, and may help him in his heart's desire, the carrying of the Gospel to his beloved Bohemia." "I must seek my father first, and then--" but before he could finish some one else came to claim the priest's attention. To try walking about with the crutches Sir John Oldcastle had prepared for him, was something of a diversion for Conrad, and prevented him from thinking uninterruptedly of what he had determined should be his life's work. He would fain have set off to Bohemia at once, if it had been practicable; but Master Faulfisch soon convinced him that such a journey was impossible at present, and that he would be much more likely to succeed in his quest by-and-by if he remained at Lutterworth for the present, and studied in the school that had been opened by one of Dr. Wycliffe's poor scholars. Master Jerome promised the boy that his first work, after he got back to...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1155029569
- ISBN 13 9781155029566
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages56
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