Publisher's Synopsis
'The Bishop of Rome--'Thomas Cranmer began a hesitating speech. In the pause after the words the King himself hesitated, as if he poised between a heavy rage and a sardonic humour. He deemed, however, that the humour could the more terrify the Archbishop-and, indeed, he was so much upon the joyous side in those summer days that he had forgotten how to browbeat. 'Our holy father, ' he corrected the Archbishop. 'Or I will say my holy father, since thou art a heretic--'Cranmer's eyes had always the expression of a man's who looked at approachingcalamity, but at the King's words his whole face, his closed lips, his brows, the lines from his round nose, all drooped suddenly downwards
