"Not worse than our own people, who remain with us because it sounds the most respectable. Not one in fifty really believes that this or that form of worship is more likely to send him to heaven than any other."
"I certainly claim to myself to be one of the few," said the Marquis.
"No doubt; and so you ought, my lord, as every advantage has been given you. But, to come back to the Bullhampton chapel,—don't you think we could move it away from the parson's gate?"
"They have built it now, Saint George."
"They can't have finished it yet."
"You wouldn't have me ask them to pull it down? Packer was here yesterday, and said that the framework of the roof was up."
"What made them hurry it in that way? Spite against the Vicar, I suppose."
"He is a most objectionable man, Saint George; most insolent, overbearing, and unlike a clergyman. They say that he is little better than an infidel himself."
"We had better leave that to the bishop, my lord."
"We must feel about it, connected as we are with the parish," said the Marquis.