among others an unhappy Mr. Sibthorpe, who subsequently changed
his mind, and returned to the Church of his fathers, and then--
perhaps it was only natural-- changed his mind again. Many more
followed Newman, and Dr. Wiseman was particularly pleased by the
conversion of a Mr. Morris, who, as he said, was 'the author of
the essay, which won the prize on the best method of proving
Christianity to the Hindus'. Hurrell Froude had died before
Newman had read the fatal article on St. Augustine; but his
brother, James Anthony, together with Arthur Clough, the poet,
went through an experience which was more distressing in those
days than it has since become; they lost their faith. With this
difference, however, that while in Froude's case the loss of his
faith turned out to be rather like the loss of a heavy
portmanteau, which one afterwards discovers to have been full of
old rags and brickbats, Clough was made so uneasy by the loss of
his that he went on looking for it everywhere as long as he
lived; but somehow he never could find it. On the other hand,
Keble and Pusey continued for the rest of their lives to dance in
an exemplary manner upon the tight-rope of High Anglicanism; in
such an exemplary manner, indeed, that the tightrope has its
dancers still.

IV

MANNING was now thirty-eight, and it was clear that he was the
rising man in the Church of England. He had many powerful
connections: he was the brother-in-law of Samuel Wilberforce, who
had been lately made a bishop; he was a close friend of Mr.
Gladstone, who was a Cabinet Minister; and he was becoming well
known in the influential circles of society in London. His talent