All the saints of the royal household were praying for each other and backbiting each other from morning, to night.
Here and there in the throng of hypocrites might be remarked a man too highspirited to dissemble.

But such a man, however advantageously he might have made himself known elsewhere, was certain to be treated with disdain by the inmates of that sullen abode.

[421] Such was the Court of James, as described by a Roman Catholic.

Yet, however disagreeable that Court may have been to a Roman Catholic, it was infinitely more disagreeable to a Protestant.

For the Protestant had to endure, in addition to all the dulness of which the Roman Catholic complained, a crowd of vexations from which the Roman Catholic was free.
In every competition between a Protestant and a Roman Catholic the Roman Catholic was preferred.