When he told them that he would tap a Conservative element by reducing the suffrage they did not know whether to believe him or not.

There might be something in it.

It might be that they would thus resume a class of suffrage existing in former days, but which had fallen into abeyance, because not properly protected.

They could teach themselves to believe that it might be so, and those among them who found it necessary to free their souls did so teach themselves.

I don't see how they are to free their souls when they are invited to put down the State establishment of the Church." "He'll find a way for them." "It's possible.