"I love Sir Nicholas and think him a good Christian, but he is scarcely a discreet one." "Tell me, father," broke out Chris, "what is going to happen ?" Mr.Carleton looked at him smiling.

He had a pleasant ugly face, with little kind eyes and sensitive mouth.
"You must ask Mr.Ralph," he said, "or rather you must not.

But he knows more than any of us." "I wish he would not speak like that." "Dear lad," said the priest, "you must not feel it like that.

Remember our Lord bore contempt as well as pain." There was silence a moment, and then Chris began again.

"Tell me about Lewes, father.