Everybody, in or out of the house, was in favor of the project, for the causeways had become, in some measure, indispensable.
The only disputed point was the length of the works in question.

One who is but little acquainted with legislation, and who has never witnessed the effects of an occultation of the great moral postulate Principle, by the orb Pecuniary Interest, would very plausibly suppose that the whole affair lay in a nutshell, and that all we had to do was to pass a law ordering the causeways to extend just as far as the public convenience rendered it necessary.

But these are mere tyros in the affairs of monikins.

The fact was that there were just as many different opinions and interests at work to regulate the length of the causeways, as there were, owners of land along their line of route.

The great object was to start in what was called the business quarter of the town, and then to proceed with the work as far as circumstances would allow.