For the rest, sir, you cannot think that thoughtful Churchmen have no answer to these questions, if put by anyone with the right to put them.

But _you_--not even a communicant! Will you dare to use these arguments to the Master, for instance ?" "He had the last word there," said Brother Copas, pocketing his snuff-box and gazing after the Chaplain's athletic figure as it swung away up the tow-path.

"He gave me no time to answer that one suits an argument to the adversary.

The Master?
Could I present anything so crude to one who, though lazy, is yet a scholar ?--who has certainly fought this thing through, after his lights, and would get me entangled in the Councils of Carthage and Constance, St.Cyprian and the rest?
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