very contrary effect to what he would desire on my mind. I can
read and understand it all in an altogether different sense, and
the facts which he quotes about the articles as drawn up in 1536,
and again in 1552, and of the Irish articles of 1615 and 1634,
STARTLE and SHAKE me about the Reformed Church in England far
more than anything else, and have done so ever since I first saw
them in Mr. Maskell's pamphlet (as quoted from Mr Dodsworth's).

'I do hope you have some time and thought to pray for me still.
Mr. Galton's letters long ago grew into short formal notes, which
hurt me and annoyed me particularly, and I never answered his
last, so, literally, I have no one to say things to and get help
from, which in one sense is a comfort when my convictions seem to
be leading me on and on, and gaining strength in spite of all the
dreariness of my lot.

'Do you know I can't help being very anxious and unhappy about
poor Sister Harriet. I am afraid of her GOING OUT OF HER MIND.
She comforts herself by an occasional outpouring of everything to
me, and I had a letter this morning. ... She says Sister May has
promised the Vicar never to talk to her or allow her to talk on
the subject with her, and I doubt whether this can be good for
her, because though she has lost her faith, she says, in the
Church of England, yet she never thinks of what she could have
faith in, and resolutely without inquiring into the question
determines riot to be a Roman Catholic, so that really, you see,
she is allowing her mind to run adrift and yet perfectly
powerless.

'Forgive my troubling you with this letter, and believe me to be