Gilbert had at first difficulty in refraining from laughter; then he sat down and waited with some impatience for the storm to spend itself.
'Come, come, Bunce,' he said, when he could make himself heard, 'remember Mr.Egremont's lecture on those things.

I think pretty much as you do about Christianity--about the dogmas, that is; but we've no need to fear it in this way.

Let's take what good there is in it, and have nothing to do with the foolish parts.' Bunce seated himself, exhausted.

Not a few among the intelligent artisans of our time are filled with that spirit of hatred against all things Christian; in him it had become a mania.

Egremont's eirenicon had been a hard saying to him; he had tried to think it over, because of his respect for the teacher, but as yet it had resulted in no sobering.