And are you glad or sorry at the prospect of leaving your Cranford ?" "Very sorry." "Why ?" "I have seen an entirely new phase of life at Slumberleigh." "I think I can guess what you mean," said Charles, gravely.

"One does not often meet any one like Mr.Alwynn." "No.

I was thinking of him.

Until I came to Slumberleigh the lines had not fallen to me in very clerical places, so my experience is limited; but he seems to me to be the only clergyman I have known who does not force on one a form of religion that has been dead and buried for years." "The clergy have much to answer for on that head," said Charles with bitterness.

"I sometimes like and respect them as individuals, but I do not love them as a class.