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Wells had said that they had drunk some of the altar wine out of the press in the sacristy and that it had been found out who had done it by the smell.
Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: _non serviam: I will not serve._ That instant was his ruin.
He turned again to Stephen and said in a whisper:
The man himself, for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds.
