The climax of his incongruity was a vehement and rather antiquated Protestantism; he was, for instance, among the few who opposed the alteration of the Coronation oath to a formula less offensive to Catholics.

Nobody doubted that his Cornish constituents would endorse whatever he did, for the House held few more popular human beings, but no one took him very seriously as a politician.

This particular view of his certainly made no breach between him and his inseparable associate, Mr.Neil Primrose, who, as time went on, took as strong a line against Ulster's claims as Agar-Robartes did for them .-- _Sunt lacrimae rerum_.
I remember vividly in August 1914 the sudden apparition of this pair, side by side as always, in their familiar place below the gangway, but in quite unfamiliar guise, for khaki was still new to the benches.

The two brilliant lads--for they were little more--have gone now, swept into the abyss of war's wreckage; the controversy which divided them remains, virulent as ever.
Agar-Robartes stuck to his guns and voted against the Bill henceforward; the other Liberals who supported him were ultimately brought into the Government lobby.

What had really mattered was Mr.Churchill's speech on the Second Reading.