The Archdeacon himself had no crotchets.

He was a religious man, to whom religion meant duty rather than dogma, a light to the feet, and a lantern for the path.

A Tory and a Churchman, he was yet a moderate Tory and a moderate Churchman; prudent, sensible, a man of the world.

To Hurrell Dissenters were rogues and idiots, a Liberal was half an infidel, a Radical was, at least in intention, a thief.

From the effect of this nonsense Anthony was saved for a time by his first school.