But at least I am a stranger there, whilst here any man who asks may know the thing I believe.

I am not afraid or ashamed to speak the truth I hold." Clarke and Dalaber went out together, and Magdalen turned anxiously upon her father.
"What did he mean ?" Dr.Langton smiled, but he also sighed a little.
"Do not be fearful, my children; we know of no peril in the present.

But we may not hide our faces from the fact that in past days this peril has threatened those who dare to speak and think the thing they hold to be truth, when that opinion is not shared by those in high places.

Yet let us be thankful in that, for the present time, no peril threatens either John Clarke and his friends or Anthony Dalaber, their pupil.".