Pavane (S.F. MASTERWORKS) by Keith Roberts

Author:Keith Roberts [Roberts, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780575104259
Publisher: Hachette Littlehampton
Published: 2011-09-29T05:00:00+00:00

His Eminence detected an error in the rush of Latin; his red fountain pen, irritably and automatically, made an erasure.

—horror such as has been perpetrated on us in this loyal, this ancient, and this blameless town. On the innocent and the foolish, on the helpless subjects of a Church and of a God professing love, and charity, and enlightenment. … This madman, this desecrator of decency, and his so-called Spiritual Court …

The Cardinal flicked the pages to the signature and shook his head. Bishop Loudain of Dubris was a bold man but a foolish one; the letter alone, placed in the proper hands, would have secured for His Grace an interlude with those very grésillons of which he so ardently complained. The thing reeked of heresy. … The Cardinal lifted the document carefully with his fingertips and redeposited it in its file. He picked up another, terser and to the point, from the commander of the garrison stationed at Durnovaria.

… the renegade known to the people as Brother John continues to evade our forces. Riots stemming directly from the teaching of him and of his followers have lately broken out in Sherborne, Sturminster, Newton, Shaftesbury, Blandford, and Durnovaria itself. The people, attributing his escapes from our troops to miraculous intervention, become daily more difficult to control. I most earnestly request the release of a further troop of horse with a minimum of four hundred infantry and appropriate arms and stores, for the purpose of searching the region from Beaminster to Yeovil where it is currently believed the insurgents are quartered. Their strength is now estimated at between fifty and a hundred; they are well armed, and have an intimate knowledge of the local terrain. Attempts to run them down employing normal methods of approach have repeatedly proved useless. …

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