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Mrs Farebrother welcouest with a lively formality and

precision She presently informed him that they were not often in want

of ht up her children to wear

flannel and not to over-eat themselves, which last habit she considered

the chief reason why people needed doctors Lydgate pleaded for those

whose fathers and mothers had over-eaten theerous: Nature was more just

than that; it would be easy for any felon to say that his ancestors

ought to have been hanged instead of him If those who had bad fathers

and ed for that There was

no need to go back on what you couldn't see

"My e the Third," said the Vicar, "she objects

to , Camden I say, keep hold of a few plain

truths, and ate, there never was any question about right and wrong We knew

our catechish; we learned our creed and our duty

Every respectable Church person had the same opinions But now, if you

speak out of the Prayer-book itself, you are liable to be contradicted"