el asked Mr O'Joscelyn, the rector,
together with his wife and daughters, to dine there on the second day;
and Mr Armstrong, though somewhat afraid of brother clergymen, was
delighted to hear that they were coming. Anything was better than
another _tete-a-tete_ with the ponderous earl. There were no other
neighbours near enough to Grey Abbey to be asked on so short a notice;
but the rector, his wife, and their daughters, entered the dining-room
punctually at half-past six.

The character and feelings of Mr O'Joscelyn were exactly those which
the earl had attributed to Mr Armstrong. He had been an Orangeman [52],
and was a most ultra and even furious Protestant. He was, by principle,
a charitable man to his neighbours; but he hated popery, and he carried
the feeling to such a length, that he almost hated Papists. He had not,
generally speaking, a bad opinion of human nature; but he would not
have considered his life or property safe in the hands of any Roman
Catholic. He pitied the ignorance of the heathen, the credulity of the
Mahommedan, the desolateness of the Jew, even the infidelity of the
atheist; but he execrated, abhorred, and abominated the Church of Rome.
"Anathema Maranatha [53]; get thee from me, thou child of Satan--go
out into utter darkness, thou worker of iniquity--into everlasting
lakes of fiery brimstone, thou doer of the devil's work--thou false
prophet--thou ravenous wolf!" Such was the language of his soul, at the
sight of a priest; such would have been the language of his tongue, had
not, as he thought, evil legislators given a licence to falsehood in
his unhappy country, and rendered it impossible for a true Churchman
openly to declare the whole truth.

[FOOTNOTE 52: Orangeman--a member of the Orange Order, a militant
Irish protestant organization founded in 1746 and
named after William of Orange, who in 1688 deposed
his father-in-law, Catholic King James II, became
King William III, and helped establish protestant
faith as a prerequisite for succession to the
English throne. The Orange Order is still exists
and remains rabidly anti-Catholic.]

[FOOTNOTE 53: Anathema Maranatha--an extreme form of
excommunication from the Catholic church formulated
by the Fathers of the Fourth Council of Toledo.
The