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Excerpt from The Jack O'lantern, Vol. 2 of 3: Le Feu-Follet; Or the Privateer As Ithuel had often heard Raoul's opinions on this subject, and knew the prevailing state of France in this particular, be neither felt nor expressed any surprise at the question. Still, the idea ran counter to all his own notions and prejudices, be having been early taught to respect religion even when he was most serving the devil. In a word, Ithuel was one of those descendants of Puritanism, who, Godward, as it is termed, was quite unexceptionable, so far as his theory extended but who, manward, was as the Scribes and Pharisees Nevertheless, as he expressed it himself, he always stood up' for religion; a fact which his English companions had com mented on in jokes: maintaining that he even stood up when the rest of the ship's com pany were on their knees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.