What he says is not worth the trouble of listening to.

He can't alter the duties of the place." "Who can't ?" asked the ex-warden.
"Neither the bishop nor the chaplain, nor yet the bishop's wife, who, I take it, has really more to say to such matters than either of the other two.

The whole body corporate of the palace together have no power to turn the warden of the hospital into a Sunday-schoolmaster." "But the bishop has the power to appoint whom he pleases, and--" "I don't know that; I rather think he'll find he has no such power.
Let him try it, and see what the press will say.

For once we shall have the popular cry on our side.

But Proudie, ass as he is, knows the world too well to get such a hornet's nest about his ears." Mr.Harding winced at the idea of the press.