"'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.'"

"[Robert] Persons was still in hiding at Stonor; he sent his servant to see how Campion was looking, and the man brought back word that his gentleness and charm had already put him on easy terms with his captors.  The party dined together at the same table.  Campion chatted easily with them and with several members of the University who were allowed to approach  him.
     "[The 'professional priest-hunter' George] Eliot was ignored; neither magistrates nor soldiers troubled to hide their dislike of the man; once or twice on the road there had been hostile movements in the crowd as the informer passed, and cries of 'Judas'; his first elation was exhausted; the praise which he had received at Court sounded faint and distorted; it was almost as though this were Campion’s triumph, and he the malefactor.  At last he could bear Campion’s neglect no longer, and so broke out:  'Mr. Campion, you look cheerfully on everyone but me.  I know you are angry with me for this work.'
     "Then, perhaps for the first time since Sunday morning, when Eliot had knelt for Mass to receive the holy bread from his hands, Campion turned his eyes on him, 'God forgive thee, Eliot,' he said, 'for so judging of me; I forgive thee and in token thereof, I drink to thee.'  He raised his cup, and then added more gravely, 'Yea, and if thou repent and come to confession, I will absolve thee; but large penance must thou have.'"

     Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (London:  Longmans, Green and Co.,1937 [1935]), 168.