"Great Lord! is it your idea of British justice to persecute the wrong man?
Why doesn't the bishop do his duty?
What do we pay him for ?" "We won't abandon our charity at the call of theology," said Ella.
"Theology--represented by Lord Earlscourt," said Mr.Courtland.
"You don't know how I've been abused during the past fortnight, indeed you don't," moaned Lord Earlscourt.

"Why, there's my own wife, she abused me like a cab-driver because George Holland had been with us on the platform when the Chinese teetotalers came here to protest against the public houses in England; she says that his backsliding will put back the cause a quarter of a century.

Then there are the other churchwardens; they look on me as if I had been making a suggestion to raffle the sacred plate.

George Holland has a run for his money, but I've had no fun out of it." "It does seem hard," said Courtland.

"But it's plain that the case calls for persecution, and why not persecute you?
Someone must be persecuted, you'll admit." "Then why the--" "I thought that your good old Bunyip would look in on us before long," said Courtland.