I hold every man's faith so sacred, that no other man has a right to interfere with it, or to question it.

The matter lies solely between himself and his Maker." "Exactly! What facility of expression your husband has, Mrs.Halifax! He must be--indeed, I have heard he is--a first-rate public speaker." The wife smiled, wife-like; but John said, hurriedly: "I have no pretention or ambition of the kind.

I merely now and then try to put plain truths, or what I believe to be such, before the people, in a form they are able to understand." "Ay, that is it.

My dear sir, the people have no more brains than the head of my cane (his Royal Highness's gift, Mrs.Halifax); they must be led or driven, like a flock of sheep.

We"-- a lordly "we!"-- "are their proper shepherds.