human
were more moral than other people, though very much poorer.
gpt
But the Irish always drink,
human
Not so much as the English, I think, said the priest.
gpt
And you are not to suppose that we are all Irish. Of my flock the greater proportion are English.
human
It is astonishing how little we know of our neighbours, said the bishop.
gpt
Of course I am aware that there are a certain number of persons of your persuasion round about us. Indeed, I could give the exact number in this diocese. But in my own immediate neighbourhood I could not put my hand upon any families which I know to be Roman Catholic.
human
It is not, my lord, because there are none.
gpt
Of course not. It is because, as I say, I do not know my neighbours.
human
I think, here in Suffolk, they must be chiefly the poor,
gpt
They were chiefly the poor who at first put their faith in our Saviour,
human
I think the analogy is hardly correctly drawn, said the bishop, with a curious smile.
gpt
We were speaking of those who are still attached to an old creed. Our Saviour was the teacher of a new religion. That the poor in the simplicity of their hearts should be the first to acknowledge the truth of a new religion is in accordance with our idea of human nature. But that an old faith should remain with the poor after it has been abandoned by the rich is not so easily intelligible.
human
The Roman population still believed, said Carbury,
gpt
The patricians had not ostensibly abandoned their religion. The people clung to it thinking that their masters and rulers clung to it also.
human
The poor have ever been the salt of the earth, my lord,
gpt
That begs the whole question,