[381] He however clung to his favourite whimsy with a tenacity which the general disapprobation only made more intense.

His old friends, the stedfast adherents of indefeasible hereditary right, grew cold and reserved.

He asked Sancroft's blessing, and got only a sharp word, and a black look.
He asked Ken's blessing; and Ken, though not much in the habit of transgressing the rules of Christian charity and courtesy, murmured something about a little scribbler.

Thus cast out by one faction, Bohun was not received by any other.

He formed indeed a class apart; for he was at once a zealous Filmerite and a zealous Williamite.