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But unfortunately the gift of an altar to St Fabricius was such a godsend that sundry priests about the country were deterood man who had bestowed his money so well I think that n of a beauteous stirring of people's minds in favour of Rome The fervent Romanists have always this point in their favour, that they are ready to believe And they have a desire for the conversion of men which is honest in an exactly inverse ratio to the dishonesty of the means which they employ to produce it Father Barhaood cause,--his time, his health, his money when he had any, and his life Much as he liked the comfort of Carbury Hall, he would never for a moment condescend to ensure its continued enjoyer Carbury was hard of heart He could see that But the dropping of watershould be put an end to by outward circumstances before the stone had been impressed that would not be his fault He at any rate would do his duty In that fixed resolution Father Barham was admirable But he had no scruple whatsoever as to the nature of the arguments he would use,--or as to the facts which he would proclainorance of his life and the positiveness of his faith he had at once reat reat instrument on behalf of the Pope He believed in the enormous proportions of the man's wealth,--believed that he was powerful in all quarters of the globe,--and believed, because he was so told by 'The Surplice,' that the man was at heart a Catholic That a man should be at heart a Catholic, and live in the world professing the Protestant religion, was not to Father Barhas who had done so were to hies and falsehood of life had they been best able to keep alive the spark of heavenly fire There was a ue in this which reco priest's mind But it was clear to him that this was a peculiar ti He had for so hiht spend a week in retreat with kindred souls who from time to time betook themselves to the cells of St Fabricius And so, just at this season of the Westminster election, Father Barham made a journey to London