First Stranger.
But public sentiment.
Bishop Hardbrooke.
Vox populi.
Fellow-Townsman.
People don't stop to think of what he's done.
Bishop Hardbrooke.
Exactly. When an axe falls on one's toes,
The service that it's been, that's out of mind.
And yet you throw the bruise, the moment's pain,
In one side, and in the other a cleared land
With homes and fields——
Second Stranger.
That's true.