The lad has brains and many excellent qualities.

There is no reason why he should not make his way in life." "If he can be cured of his Papist beliefs," said Lady Frances; "but no man holding them gets on in these days, and Cuthbert has been bred up in the very worst of such tenets." "So bad that he is half disgusted with them before he can rightly say why," answered Sir Richard with a smile.

"There is too much hatred and bitterness in Nicholas Trevlyn's religion to endear it to his children.

The boy has had the wit to see that the Established Church of the land uses the same creeds and holds the same cardinal doctrines as he has been bred up in.

For the Pope he cares no whit; his British blood causes him to think scorn of any foreign potentate, temporal or spiritual.