Half the preachers are dishonest." Then, seeing Isa's look of horrified surprise, Albert added: "Not in money matters, but in matters of opinion.

They do not deal honestly with themselves or other people.

Ministers are about as unfair as pettifoggers in their way of arguing, and not more than one in twenty of them is brave enough to tell the whole truth." "Such notions! such notions!" cried Mrs.Plausaby.
And Cousin Isa--Miss Isabel Marlay, I should say for she was only a cousin by brevet--here joined valiant battle in favor of the clergy.

And poor little Katy, who dearly loved to take sides with her friends, found her sympathies sadly split in two in a contest between her dear, dear brother and her dear, dear Cousin Isa, and she did wish they would quit talking about such disagreeable things.

I do not think either of the combatants convinced the other, but as each fought fairly they did not offend one another, and when the battle was over, Albert bluntly confessed that he had spoken too strongly, and though Isa made no confession, she felt that after all ministers were not impeccable, and that Albert was a brave fellow.
And Mrs.Plausaby said that she hoped Isabel would beat some sense into the boy, for she was really afraid that he never would have anything but notions.