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I have of course given but the spine and ribs, as it were, of the / sermon. There is no place for more. It is enough however to show / that he came to the point -- and what can be better in preaching? / Certainly he was making the best of the blunder that had led him up / into that pulpit! And on the other hand, whatever might be the / various judgments and opinions of his hearers in respect of the / sermon -- a thing about which the less any preacher allows himself to / think the better -- many of them did actually feel that he had been / preaching to them, which is saying much. Even Mrs. Ramshorn was more / silent than usual as they went home, and although -- not having / acquainted herself, amongst others, with the sermons of Latimer -- she / was profoundly convinced that such preaching was altogether contrary / to the tradition, usage, and tone of the English Church, of which / her departed dean remained to her the unimpeachable embodiment and / type, the sole remark she made was, that Mr. Wingfold took quite too / much pains to prove himself a pagan. Mr. Bascombe was in the same / mind as before.
"I like the fellow," he said. "He says what he means, fair and full, / and no shilly-shallying. It's all great rubbish, of course!"