"Evers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as I know, are nevertheless inevitable if one is to begin one's unheroic story in the modern manner, at the latest possible point. That is clearly the point at which a waiter brought me the fatal letter from Catherine Evers. Apart even from its immediate consequences, the letter had a prima facie interest, of no ordinary kind, as the first for years from a once constant correspondent. And so I sat studying the envelope with a curiosity ...
— No Hero • E.W. Hornung
... established, it would appear that this date should be accepted until further information. Starting from slightly different premises, the learned editors of the Analecta arrive at the same conclusion (t. ii., pp. 25-36). Cf. Evers, Analecta ad Fr. Minorum historiam, Leipsic, 1882, 4to, pp. 7 and 11. That which appears to me decidedly to tip the balance in favor of 1217, is the fact that the missionary friars were persecuted because ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier |
