"Erskine, let us drink to our brother Social Democrat." Erskine laughed loudly, but not heartily.

"What an ass you are, Brandon!" he said.

"You, with a large landed estate, and bags of gold invested in railways, calling yourself a Social Democrat! Are you going to sell out and distribute--to sell all that thou hast and give to the poor ?" "Not a penny," replied Trefusis for him promptly.

"A man cannot be a Christian in this country.

I have tried it and found it impossible both in law and in fact.