one of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made.
The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away, but the subtlety with which the Rev. Robert Strickland has "interpreted" all the facts in his father's life which a dutiful son might find it inconvenient to remember must surely lead him in the fullness of time to the highest dignities of the Church.
I have read this work with a good deal of amusement, and upon this I congratulate myself, since it is colourless and dull.