But doubtless both unite on hell for other sects." The rector's quick laugh was silenced by the game, but at the next pause he hastened to tell them what John Ward had said of slavery.

"Fancy such a speech!" he cried, his face growing red at the remembrance.

"Under the circumstances, I couldn't tell him what I thought of him; but I had my opinion.

I wonder," he went on, rattling a bunch of keys in his pocket, "what would be the attitude of a mind like his in politics?
Conservative to the most ridiculous degree, I imagine.

Of course, to a certain extent, it is proper to be conservative.