‘There?’ he repeated, doubtfully,—as dissatisfied.
‘Yes,’ I answered; ‘his body at least;—his head is at the Lateran.’
‘Il suo corpo,’ again he repeated, still as in discontent. Then, after a pause, ‘E la sua statua?’
Such a wicked thing to ask for that! wasn’t it, my Evangelical friends? You would so much rather have had him ask for Hudson’s! [[155]]
[1] Observe, this is only asserted of its main principles; not of minor and accessory points. I may be entirely wrong in the explanation of a text, or mistake the parish schools of St. Matthias for St. Matthew’s, over and over again. I have so large a field to work in that this cannot be helped. But none of these minor errors are of the least consequence to the business in hand. [↑]
[2] See first article in the Notes and Correspondence to this number. [↑]
[3] See second note at end of this letter. [↑]
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.
I have had by me, some time, three eager little fragments from one of Mr. Sillar’s letters:—too eager, always, in thinking this one sin of receiving interest on money means every other. I know many excellent people, happily, whose natures have not been spoiled by it: the more as it has been done absolutely without knowledge of being wrong. I did not find out the wrong of it myself, till Mr. Sillar showed me the way to judge of it.