'_What_ deluge?
_Which_ deluge ?' But he restrained himself, handed the book coldly back, and began to talk of something else.

All this was highly significant to Godwin, who of course began the perusal of his prize in a suspicious mood.

Nor was he long before he sympathised with Mr Gunnery's distaste.

Though too young to grasp the arguments at issue, his prejudices were strongly excited by the conventional Theism which pervades Figuier's work.

Already it was the habit of his mind to associate popular dogma with intellectual shallowness; herein, as at every other point which fell within his scope, he had begun to scorn average people, and to pride himself intensely on views which he found generally condemned.