"What the blazes do you mean by attacking the Word of God in that fashion ?" "Tommy," said the Rev.George Holland, smiling a patronizing smile at his patron, "Tommy, my friend, if you take my advice you'll not meddle with what doesn't concern you.

You're a peer; better leave the Word of God to me.

I'm not a peer, but a parson." "I'll not leave it with you; it isn't safe," said the peer.

"Anything more damnably atheistical than that book of yours I never read." "And you didn't read it, Thomas; you know you only read a screeching review of it, and you didn't even read that through," said the parson.
"Who told you that ?" asked the patron.

"Well, at any rate I read what you said about Ruth.