It could not have been the case
that the Hon. Colonel Mowbray Dick, the Member for West Bustard, had
really elaborated out of his own head that theory of the _status
pupillaris_. A better fellow, or a more popular officer, or a
sweeter-tempered gentleman than Mowbray Dick does not exist; but
he certainly never entertained advanced opinions respecting the
religious education of his country. When he is at home with his
family, he always goes to church, and there has been an end of it.
And then the fight began. The thunderbolts of opposition were
unloosed, and the fires of political rancour blazed high. Mr. Gresham
rose to his legs, and declared to all the world that which he had
hitherto kept secret from his own party. It was known afterwards that
in discussion with his own dearly-beloved political friend, Lord
Cantrip, he had expressed his unbounded anger at the duplicity, greed
for power, and want of patriotism displayed by his opponent; but he
had acknowledged that the blow had come so quick and so unexpectedly
that he thought it better to leave the matter to the House without
instruction from himself.
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