He placed the jug with the beer before the radical, and the glass with the gin and water before the man in black, and then, with a wink to me, he sauntered out.
"Here is your health, sir," said the man of the snuff-coloured coat, addressing himself to the man in black.

"I honour you for what you said about the Church of England.

Every one who speaks against the Church of England has my warm heart.

Down with it, I say, and may the stones of it be used for mending the roads, as my friend William says in his Register." The man in black, with a courteous nod of his head, drank to the man in the snuff-coloured coat.

"With respect to the steeples," said he, "I am not altogether of your opinion: they might be turned to better account than to serve to mend the roads; they might still be used as places of worship, but not for the worship of the Church of England.