Storia do Mogor 338.12.6

338.12.6

On getting this reply, they went on to the house of the Dominican. As soon as he saw them he dropped on his knees before them and, almost weeping, said to them : ' Gentlemen and brothers, for the love of God and the Most Holy Virgin of the Rosary, will you not do me the pleasure of handing to me the silver?' To this they all replied that they would so do with all their heart, if the silver were only in their control. His paternity knew very well that it was no longer in their hands ; yet on hearing these words the father rose in a great rage, and in a loud voice, growing louder as he went on, he said : 'Brothers, either the silver or its money value ; there is no middle term.' In this he did not speak badly, for, as is herein to be seen, in all that he did about this wearisome silver there appeared nought but extremes, and his acts concerning it passed from one extreme to another. He continued : ' Unless one [181] or the other is delivered, there is no way for you to get absolution.'