Could anything be more immoral, more rotten in principle?
_There_ is the spirit we have to contend against--a spirit of accursed lenity in morals, often originating in so-called scientific considerations! Evil is evil--vice, vice--the devil is the devil--be circumstances what they may.

I do not care to make mention of such monstrous aberrations as, for instance, the attacks we are occasionally forced to hear on the law of marriage.
That is the mere reek of the bottomless pit, palpable to all.

But I speak of subtler disguises of evil, such as may recommend themselves to persons well-intentioned but of weak understanding.

Happily, I persuaded my friends to discontinue their countenance of that weekly paper, and I shall exert myself everywhere to the same end." They rose at length, and went to the drawing-room.

There Glazzard succeeding in seating himself by Miss Mumbray, and for a quarter of an hour he talked with her about art and literature.