"I have protested--in vain.
Miss Mallory maintains her recommendation.

I propose, therefore, to withdraw from the Club." "Are they improper ?" cried Mrs.Roughsedge, much distressed.

Captain Roughsedge threw an angry look first at his mother and then at the Vicar.
"Not in the usual sense," said the Vicar, stiffly--"but highly improper for the reading of Christian people.

One is by a Unitarian, and the other reproduces some of the worst speculations of an infidel German theology.

I pointed out the nature of the books to Miss Mallory.