If you had been born in the Castle, and I had been born in your place, you would have thought as I do, and I should have thought as you do; and of course, still more if you had been born in a Catholic country like Italy, where you would never have heard of Protestantism, and I had been born in a Protestant country like Holland, where I should never have had a chance of becoming a Catholic.

Very few people ever change their religion.

They just live and die as they have been born and educated." "It seems so," John said after a pause; "but the question is too deep for us." "Quite so," Walter laughed, "and I don't want to argue it.
"Well, when are you going to start ?" "I am off tomorrow morning.

My father has an acquaintance in Dublin who is starting for Derry, and I am to go in his charge." For another hour the boys chatted together, and then, with mutual promises of writing regularly, whenever they had the chance, they said goodbye; and the following morning John started with his father to Dublin, and next day journeyed north towards Derry..