He had tested the power of heterodoxy to attract attention,
but having found that the attention it did attract was not of a kind
favourable to his wishes, had so skilfully remodelled his theories
that, although to his former friends he declared them in substance
unaltered, it was impossible any longer to distinguish them from
the most uncompromising orthodoxy; and his sermon of that morning
had tended neither to the love of God, the love of man, nor
a hungering after righteousness--its aim being to disprove the
reported heterodoxy of Jacob Masquar.
As they walked home, Mrs Marshal, addressing her husband in a tone
of conjugal disapproval, said, with more force than delicacy,
"The pulpit is not the place to give a man to wash his dirty linen
in."
"Well, you see, my love," answered her husband in a tone of apology,
"people won't submit to be told their duty by mere students, and
just at present there seems nobody else to be had. There's none
in the market but old stagers and young colts--eh, Fred? But Mr
Masquar is at least a man of experience."
"Of more than enough, perhaps," suggested his wife. "And the young
ones must have their chance, else how are they to learn? You should
have given the principal a hint. It is a most desirable thing that
Frederick should preach a little oftener.
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