The Last Guardian (2011)
“said the Parson, sitting by Shannow’s bedside and holding the leather-covered books. “Surely one is enough?”
Shannow, his head bandaged and his left eye swollen and blue, reached out and took the first. “I carried this with me for many years. But last year a woman gave me the second; the language is more simple. It lacks the majesty, but it makes many passages easier to understand.”
“I have no trouble in understanding it,” said the Parson. “Throughout it makes one point: God’s law is absolute. Live by it and you prosper both here and in the afterlife. Defy it and you die.”
Shannow eased himself back into the pillows. He was always wary of men who claimed to understand the Almighty, yet the Parson was good company, by turns witty and philosophical; he had an active mind and was strong on debate.
His presence made Shannow’s enforced rest less galling.
“How goes the church building?” Shannow asked.
“My son,” said the Parson, grinning, “it is no less than a miracle.
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