"But you must remember the _spirit of the age_, Arthur, as Mr.
Hubbard calls it ?" "Yes," said Arthur, "I forgot that; but I wonder if Mr.Hubbard excuses the conduct of England to her colonies in consideration of the spirit of the age--_that_ allowed taxation and all of her other forms of oppression, I suppose.

It is a kind of charity that covers a multitude of sins.

But I was saying," continued Arthur, "that I could not make you out.

While they were carrying on two kinds of slave trade, they were discussing in Boston the propriety of women's wearing veils, having lectures about it.

Let me read to you.