But these, you know,
are speculative, and in all essentials he is Church--not in the perverted
modern sense; far from it--unexceptionably Church, strictly so. Would there
were more among us of the same mind that is in him! Ay, Miss Ruthyn, even
in the highest places of the Church herself.'
The Rev. William Fairfield, while fighting against the Dissenters with his
right hand, was, with his left, hotly engaged with the Tractarians. A good
man I am sure he was, and I dare say sound in doctrine, though naturally, I
think, not very wise. This conversation with him gave me new ideas about my
uncle Silas. It quite agreed with what my father had said. These principles
and his increasing years would necessarily quiet the turbulence of his
resistance to injustice, and teach him to acquiesce in his fate.
You would have fancied that one so young as I, born to wealth so vast, and
living a life of such entire seclusion, would have been exempt from care.
But you have seen how troubled my life was with fear and anxiety during the
residence of Madame de la Rougierre, and now there rested upon my mind a
vague and awful anticipation of the trial which my father had announced,
without defining it.
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