Only one Fellow, Doctor Fairfax, refused to yield even to this extent.

The Commissioners would gladly have compromised the dispute on these terms; and during a few hours there was a truce which many thought likely to end in an amicable arrangement: but soon all was again in confusion.
The Fellows found that the popular voice loudly accused them of pusillanimity.

The townsmen already talked ironically of a Magdalene conscience, and exclaimed that the brave Hough and the honest Fairfax had been betrayed and abandoned.

Still more annoying were the sneers of Obadiah Walker and his brother renegades.

This then, said those apostates, was the end of all the big words in which the society had declared itself resolved to stand by its lawful President and by its Protestant faith.