I don't think the subject was ever alluded to between my father and him; but I think that being balked, just at the moment when he thought he had obtained the object of his hopes and prayers for the last forty years, has almost broken his heart.
"He goes about the house, scarce speaking a word, and seems to have lost almost all his energy.

He has ceased to read the family prayers, and to hold forth morning and night.

I do think he considers that the Lord has cheated him out of his lawful vengeance.

It is awfully sad, Walter, though it is strange, to see such a travesty of religion as the tenets of my grandfather and some of the old men who, like him, represent the views of Cromwell's soldiers.
"Their religion cannot be called true Christianity.

It is the Judaism of the times when the Jews were among the most ignorant of peoples.