“What are the men making that noise there forward for?”
“Cleaning the engines, Sir.”
“Just tell them not to make such a row, keeping good Christians from their sleep at this time of night.”
“Ay, ay, Sir.”
(Disappearance of ghost; joke next morning,)
(Told by Arnold to Hodgson, June, 1884).
The great agnostic, usually most precise in his language, describes himself as a “good Christian”!
The very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,—