No man could speak as you did this morning, who addressed mere abstract humanity." "I will not say that individuals did not come up before me; how can a man help it where he knows every body in his congregation more or less?
But I give you my word, sir, I never thought of you." "Then you might have done so with the greatest propriety," returned the rector.

"My conscience sided with you all the time.

You found me out.
I've got a bit of the muscle they call a heart left in me yet, though it _has_ got rather leathery .-- But what do they mean when they say you are setting the parish by the ears ?" "I don't know, sir.

I have heard of no quarreling.

I have made some enemies, but they are not very dangerous, and I hope not very bitter ones; and I have made many more friends, I am sure." "What they tell me is, that your congregation is divided--that they take sides for and against you, which is a most undesirable thing, surely!" "It is indeed; and yet it may be a thing that, for a time, can not be helped.