However, it was not religion that kept me from going there for the present; and as I had made no scruple of being openly of the religion of the country all the while I was among them, so neither did I yet; only that, now and then, having of late thought more of it than formerly, when I began to think of living and dying among them, I began to regret having professed myself a Papist, and thought it might not be the best religion to die with.
È vero che allora non fu questo il principale ostacolo; ed è anche vero che nella mia prima dimora colà non mi avea fatto scrupolo di professare agli occhi del paese il cattolicismo. Ma da allora in poi si erano grandemente riformati i miei pensieri e io rifuggiva da ogni finzione.