"And yet it is simple enough. Ever since I have been able to think on such subjects at all, I have had my own views on the subject of education--true education as opposed to false. When I see such creatures as Broadbridge and Tyler endeavouring to promulgate their hideous notions and notorious malpractices in the place in which I live, I cannot refuse to listen to the call of duty which summons me, both as a Christian and a woman of education and refinement, to take my stand against them."
"Then am I to gather that that name--that your name--that my name--is there by your authority?"
"Your name, certainly not. My name, undoubtedly."
"But have you forgotten that I am myself a candidate?"
"So, I am sorry to say, I have been given to understand."
"I represent the cause of progress and advance."
"Both, I imagine, in the direction of the public-house. I am credibly informed that since your candidature there has been more drunkenness in Copstone than has ever been known before in the annals of the parish."
It was a monstrous thing to say. Yet I wished that my associates had been teetotallers, and that we could have had the use of the parish room.
"Henrietta, I will not characterise the statement which you have just now made. I content myself by taking up my position as head of this household to prohibit your pursuing any farther the dangerous pathways along which your feet have been induced to stray by the Jesuitical teachings of an insidious foe."
"Speak English, Augustus, if you please, at home. Rodomontade, if you choose, where nobody understands you, or wants to. Here say plainly what you mean."