The Daylight Gate
“He took Alice’s hands and kissed them. ‘I met you at Salmsbury Hall when I was a boy. What was I? Eighteen? I fell in love with you. I became a priest. I remained in love with you. Whatever you are, I will always love you.’ Alice touched his chest. He pulled his shirt over his head. His chest was stamped with scars from the branding iron and the red-hot wires. She stroked his scars. She did not flinch.
He kissed her forehead. ‘I will always love you but I can’t be your lover.’ ‘God will for...give you.’ ‘I have nothing for Him to forgive.’ He unbuttoned his breeches and taking Alice’s hand laid it against his groin.
* They had taken the Jesuit Christopher Southworth to a cell without windows. In the cell was a rack, a winch, a furnace, a set of branding irons, a pot for melting wax, nails of different lengths. A thumbscrew, a pair of flesh-tongs, heavy tweezers, a set of surgical instruments, a series of small metal trays, ropes, wire, preparations of quicklime, a hood and a blindfold.MoreLess
He kissed her forehead. ‘I will always love you but I can’t be your lover.’ ‘God will for...give you.’ ‘I have nothing for Him to forgive.’ He unbuttoned his breeches and taking Alice’s hand laid it against his groin.
* They had taken the Jesuit Christopher Southworth to a cell without windows. In the cell was a rack, a winch, a furnace, a set of branding irons, a pot for melting wax, nails of different lengths. A thumbscrew, a pair of flesh-tongs, heavy tweezers, a set of surgical instruments, a series of small metal trays, ropes, wire, preparations of quicklime, a hood and a blindfold.MoreLess
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