“Whom does it persecute?” said I.
The man in black glanced at me slightly, and then replied slowly, “The Catholics.”
“And do those whom you call Catholics never persecute?” said I.
“Never,” said the man in black.
“Did you ever read ‘Fox’s Book of Martyrs?’” said I.
“He! he!” tittered the man in black, “there is not a word of truth in ‘Fox’s Book of Martyrs.’”
“Ten times more than in the ‘Flos Sanctorum,’” said I.
The man in black looked at me, but made no answer.
“And what say you to the Massacre of the Albigenses and the Vaudois, ‘whose bones lie scattered on the cold Alp,’ or the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes?”
The man in black made no answer.