No, sir! Episcopacy is a good thing; but it may happen that a bishop is not a good thing.

Just as brandy is a good thing, though this particular brandy is British, and tastes like sugared rain-water caught down the chimney.

Here, Ratcliffe, let me have something to drink, a little less like a decoction of sugar and soot.' '_I_ said nothing again' Episcopacy,' returned Mr.Tomlinson.

'I only said I thought we should do as well wi'out bishops; an' I'll say it again for the matter o' that.

Bishops never brought any grist to my mill.' 'Do you know when the lectures are to begin ?' said Mr.Pilgrim.
'They are to _begin_ on Sunday next,' said Mr.Dempster, in a significant tone; 'but I think it will not take a long-sighted prophet to foresee the end of them.