Colonel Mowbray Dick, the Member for West Bustard, had really elaborated out of his own head that theory of the _status pupillaris_.

A better fellow, or a more popular officer, or a sweeter-tempered gentleman than Mowbray Dick does not exist; but he certainly never entertained advanced opinions respecting the religious education of his country.

When he is at home with his family, he always goes to church, and there has been an end of it.
And then the fight began.

The thunderbolts of opposition were unloosed, and the fires of political rancour blazed high.

Mr.Gresham rose to his legs, and declared to all the world that which he had hitherto kept secret from his own party.