Storia do Mogor 338.3.2

338.3.2

Obviously it is unfitting in a time of war, as this is, to allow a man who has long lived in your country to quit it for that of the enemy, especially when he is of the same nation as that enemy. 'In this case we have the easy resource at hand of fulminating censures against him [from Pondicherry] in such a way that he will be unable to exercise his ecclesiastical functions. In this manner, should the friar by great exertions deliver himself from the Scylla of the English Government, it will not be easy for him to escape from the Charybdis of the Church's censures, and the other burthens with which it can overwhelm him. Even if he is freed from both, still, he will not be delivered from us, who already hold him like a fish in a net; and it will not be difficult for us to plunge the lancet behind his ear. 'This being admitted, in the execution of the project haste will have the larger share in our success. But for the present let us go to bed, for it is already very late; and from now onwards be sure that "Mon Père" will not sleep so much to his taste in the bed that we have prepared for him as he has been doing hitherto.'