Barrington Erle, suffering under a real political conviction for once in his life, was desirous of a positive and chivalric defence of the Church.

He believed in the twenty years.
Mr.Bonteen shut himself up in disgust.

Things were amiss; and, as he thought, the evil was due to want of party zeal on the part of his own leader, Mr.Gresham.He did not dare to say this, lest, when the house door should at last be opened, he might not be invited to enter with the others; but such was his conviction.

"If we were all a little less in the abstract, and a little more in the concrete, it would be better for us." Laurence Fitzgibbon, when these words had been whispered to him by Mr.Bonteen, had hardly understood them; but it had been explained to him that his friend had meant "men, not measures." When Parliament met, Mr.Gresham, the leader of the Liberal party, had not as yet expressed any desire to his general followers.
The Queen's Speech was read, and the one paragraph which seemed to possess any great public interest was almost a repetition of the words which Mr.Daubeny had spoken to the electors of East Barsetshire.

"It will probably be necessary for you to review the connection which still exists between, and which binds together, the Church and the State." Mr.Daubeny's words had of course been more fluent, but the gist of the expression was the same.