The clergyman who preached the sermon did not, in fact, please her at all.

He was a thin High Churchman, with an oblong face and head, narrow shoulders, and a spare frame.

He wore spectacles, and his voice was disagreeably pitched.

His sermon was nevertheless remarkable.

A bare yet penetrating style; a stern view of life; the voice of a prophet, and apparently the views of a socialist--all these he possessed.