25/31 But I ain't sure that I wish to marry my daughter in the City. I won't deny that on general subjects I can give as much latitude as any man; but when one's own hearth is attacked--" "Surely such a proposition as mine, Mr.Wharton, is no attack!" "In my sense it is. When a man proposes to assault and invade the very kernel of another man's heart, to share with him, and indeed to take from him, the very dearest of his possessions, to become part and parcel with him either for infinite good or infinite evil, then a man has a right to guard even his prejudices as precious bulwarks." Mr.Wharton as he said this was walking about the room with his hands in his trowsers pockets. "I have always been for absolute toleration in matters of religion,--have always advocated admission of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. |