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But the 52year old Becket was, remember, a cockney, a street fighter, tough as old boots under the cowl. When he stood rooted to the spot, he became physically, as well as theologically, the immovable objects. At such times the kind of talk he' d picked up in his Cheapside childhood came back to him, ripe and abusive. " Whoremonger," he yelled at fitzUrse, who must suddenly have felt ridiculous clanking around in all that armour. What do you do when you can' t stand feeling ridiculous any longer? Whoosh goes in the adrenaline, bang goes the gun, or in this case the sword. Down through Becket' s attendant' s arm, then slicing through the top of the Archbishop' s head. The crown hung by a thread of flesh as Becket sank to the floor murmuring, according to his chroniclers, " For the name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I' m ready to embrace death." |
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dàn jì zhù, 52 suì de bèi kè tè kě shì gè lún dūn rén, shì gè jiē tóu bà wáng, gēn dǒu péng xià de pí xuē yì bān wán gù. zhǐ yào tā zhàn zài nà li, wú lùn shì zài shēn tǐ shàng, hái shì xìn yǎng shàng, nǐ dōu wú fǎ ràng tā dòng yáo fēn háo. zài zhè zhǒng shí kè, tā xiǎng qǐ le zài qī pǔ sāi jiē de nèi xiē huí yì, qīng xī ér shēng dòng." pí tiáo kè" tā xiàng fèi zé sī hǒu dào, hòu zhě shēn chuān dīng dàng zuò xiǎng de kuī jiǎ, dùn shí gǎn dào fēi cháng huāng miù. dāng nǐ rěn wú kě rěn zhè zhǒng huāng miù, nǐ huì zuò chū shén me jǔ dòng? shèn shàng xiàn sù yǒng dòng, qiāng xiǎng chū táng, huò zhě xiàng zhè yī cì, jiàn qǐ xuè luò, xiān kǎn xià le bèi kè tè suí cóng de gē bó, jiē zhe xuē xià le dà zhǔ jiào de tóu pí. dāng bèi kè tè dào zài dì shàng shēn yín shí, guān miǎn shàng hái lián zhe wèi xuē duàn de ròu. gēn jù biān nián shǐ jì zǎi, tā dāng shí shuō," yǐ yē sū de míng yì hé jiào huì de bì hù, wǒ yǐ zhǔn bèi hǎo yíng jiē sǐ wáng." |