[322] The Warden, 32.
[323] Although Kingsley threw Shirley aside because the opening seemed to him vulgar. Harriet Martineau said the same of Villette.
[324] Shirley, I, 2.
[325] Shirley, I, 355.
[326] Villette, II, 186.
[327] Villette, II, 210–11.
[328] Villette, II, 220.
[329] Alton Locke, 186.
[330] Alton Locke, 229–30. Cf. 205ff. for an equally forceful presentation of the other side through the eloquent rebuke to illogical complaints, given by Eleanor Staunton. It is in Yeast that Papacy is satirized, a typical hit being the unconscious irony of Vieuxbois’ assertion,—“I do not think that we have any right in the nineteenth century to contest an opinion which the fathers of the Church gave in the fourth.” 114. Alton Locke also says,—“A man-servant, a soldier and a Jesuit, are to me the three great wonders of humanity—three forms of moral suicide, for which I never had the slightest gleam of sympathy, or even comprehension.” 187.
[331] Beauchamp’s Career, 622.