One was the strength and beauty of the religious faith by which the Cleavers and their friends lived.

The other was the misery, squalor, and chronic discontent of the Catholic population, then almost twice as large as after the famine it became.

He did not pause to reflect upon what had been done by laws made in England, or upon the iniquity of taxing Ireland in tithes for the Church of a small minority.

He concluded simply that Protestantism meant progress, and Catholicism involved stagnation.

He heard dark stories of Ribbonism, and was gravely assured that if Mr.Cleaver's Catholic coachman, otherwise an excellent servant, were ordered to shoot his master, he would obey.