For a gathering of men upon whose decision hung such momentous issues, the Council which met that evening at Westminster seemed alike unambitious in tone and uninspired in appearance.

Some short time was spent in one of the anterooms, where Julian was introduced to many of the delegates.

The disclosure of his identity, although it aroused immense interest, was scarcely an unmixed joy to the majority of them.
Those who were in earnest--and they mostly were in grim and deadly earnest--had hoped to find him a man nearer their own class.

Fenn and Bright had their own reasons for standing apart, and the extreme pacifists took note of the fact that he had been a soldier.

His coming, however, was an event the importance of which nobody attempted to conceal.
The Bishop was voted into the chair when the little company trooped into the apartment which had been set aside for their more important meetings.