For the whole place goes wrong, and the cat sits in the corner, when you go on with politics as your dear father grunts at.

No doubt it may all be very fine and just, and worth a man giving his life for, if he don't care about it, nor nobody else--but even if it was to keep the French out, and yourn goeth nearer to letting them in, what difference of a button would it make to us, Dan, compared to our sticking together, and feeding with a knowledge and a yielding to the fancies of each other ?" "I am sure it's no fault of mine," said Daniel, moved from his high ropes by this last appeal; "to me it never matters twopence what I have for dinner, and you saw me give Tim all the brown of the baked potatoes the very last time I had my dinner here.

But what comes above all those little bothers is the necessity for insisting upon freedom of opinion.

I don't pretend to be so old as my father, nor to know so much as he knows about the world in general.

But I have read a great deal more than he has, of course, because he takes a long time to get a book with the right end to him; and I have thought, without knowing it, about what I have read, and I have heard very clever men (who could have no desire to go wrong, but quite the other way) carrying on about these high subjects, beyond me, but full of plain language.