1/40 CHAPTER II. Not since the death of my mother had I known him to laugh so heartily. "'The courtesies of ecclesiastical controversy!' Did you notice how he began like a lamb--Everhard, I mean, and how quickly he became a roaring lion? He would have made a good scientist if his energies had been directed that way." I need scarcely say that I was deeply interested in Ernest Everhard. It was not alone what he had said and how he had said it, but it was the man himself. |