Thursday, July 9, 2015

Started Reading "Galore," by Michael Crummey





Devine's Widow tells Father Phelan, You'd be a half-decent priest if you gave up the drinking and whoring.


Half-decent, he said, wouldn't be worth the sacrifice.

Father Phelan was, of course, Catholic, and prior to 1784, the practice of the Catholic Religion was illegal in Newfoundland.

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