Whenever I feebly interposed an objection to anything he said (for, after all, he talked on), he told me to hear the Catholic Church.

I asked him which Catholic Church?
He said the English.

I asked him whether it was to be the Church of the sixth century, or the thirteenth, or the seventeenth or the eighteenth?
He told me the one and eternal Church which belonged as much to the nineteenth century as to the first.

I begged to know whether, then, I was to hear the Church according to Simeon, or according to Newman, or according to St.Paul; for they seemed to me a little at variance?
He told me, austerely enough, that the mind of the Church was embodied in her Liturgy and Articles.

To which I answered, that the mind of the episcopal clergy might, perhaps, be; but, then, how happened it that they were always quarrelling and calling hard names about the sense of those very documents?
And so I left him, assuring him that, living in the nineteenth century, I wanted to hear the Church of the nineteenth century, and no other; and should be most happy to listen to her, as soon as she had made up her mind what to say.' Argemone was angry and disappointed.