Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7)
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She truly believes Elizabeth isn’t Henry’s daughter at all, that Anne Boleyn had her by her lover Mark Smeaton. Pentwyr o cachu.’
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‘Remember the new Book of Common Prayer is to be used in all church services from Sunday. A lot of people won’t like it.’
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As the saying goes,’ Lockswood added, sadly, ‘never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness.’
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‘Honour can sometimes just be another word for prestige and status.
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I smiled sadly, and began to quote some lines: ‘“I regarded little God’s Word, but gave myself to vanities and shadows of the world. I forsook Him,
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in whom is all truth, and followed the vain, foolish imaginings of my heart.”’
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I remember the story of Job in the Bible; God granted him peace at last after all his trials.