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What the bishop said had a sort of comfort in it, but it was not a sustaining comfort. It made Mr. Harding feel that many others---indeed, all others of his own order--would think him right; but it failed to prove to him that he truly was so" (29).

"Dr. Grantly would be ready enough to take up his cudgel against all comers on behalf of the church militant, but he would do so on the distasteful ground of the church's infallibility.

Such a contest would give no comfort to Mr. Harding's doubts; he was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so" (27).

"(T)he value of the property had gradually increased from year to year, and century to century, and was now presumed by those who knew anything about it, to bring in a very nice income; and by some who knew nothing about it to have increased to an almost fabulous extent" 3).