6/18 You may imagine that a good deal of it is very strange to me. Your profession must take you a good deal among all classes of people. I have seen something of what one may call the upper, or, at any rate, the richer classes, since I came back; do tell me something about the poorer classes of the community. How do they take the new order of things ?" "Badly," said the young cleric, "badly, in more senses than one. They are helpless and they are bitter--bitter in the useless kind of way that produces no great resolutions. |