I could get one from Mr.
Sclater too, whose church I attended while there." "Show me what you have," said his lordship.
Donal took the papers from the pocket-book his mother had made him, and handed them to him.

The earl read them with some attention, returning each to him without remark as he finished it, only saying with the last, "Quite satisfactory." "But," said Donal, "there is one thing I should be more at ease if I told your lordship: Mr.Carmichael, the minister of this parish, would tell you I was an atheist, or something very like it--therefore an altogether unsafe person.

But he knows nothing of me." "On what grounds then would he say so ?" asked the earl--showing not the least discomposure.

"I thought you were a stranger to this place!" Donal told him how they had met, what had passed between them, and how the minister had behaved in consequence.

His lordship heard him gravely, was silent for a moment, and then said, "Should Mr.Carmichael address me on the subject, which I do not think likely, he will find me already too much prejudiced in your favour.
But I can imagine his mistaking your freedom of speech: you are scarcely prudent enough.