You all know how greatly I should distrust the opinion of such a man.

But in this matter I hold him to be blameless.

I believe Dr.Proudie has lived too long among gentlemen to be guilty, or to instigate another to be guilty, of so gross an outrage.

No! That man uttered what was untrue when he hinted that he was speaking as the mouthpiece of the bishop.

It suited his ambitious views at once to throw down the gauntlet to us--at once to defy us here in the quiet of our own religious duties--here within the walls of our own loved cathedral--here where we have for so many years exercised our ministry without schism and with good repute.