otherwise than as an intruder. The interest of the two preachers,
therefore, as well as the sentiments of their flocks, were at direct
variance; and here was another fatal objection in the way of Lady
Peveril's scheme of a general and comprehensive healing ordinance.

Nevertheless, as we have already hinted, Doctor Dummerar behaved as
handsomely upon the occasion as the Presbyterian incumbent had done.
It is true, that in a sermon which he preached in the Castle hall to
several of the most distinguished Cavalier families, besides a world
of boys from the village, who went to see the novel circumstance of a
parson in a cassock and surplice, he went at great length into the
foulness of the various crimes committed by the rebellious party
during the late evil times, and greatly magnified the merciful and
peaceful nature of the honourable Lady of the Manor, who condescended
to look upon, or receive into her house in the way of friendship and
hospitality, men holding the principles which had led to the murder of
the King--the slaying and despoiling his loyal subjects--and the
plundering and breaking down of the Church of God. But then he wiped
all this handsomely up again, with the observation, that since it was
the will of their gracious and newly-restored Sovereign, and the
pleasure of the worshipful Lady Peveril, that this contumacious and
rebellious race should be, for a time, forborne by their faithful
subjects, it would be highly proper that all the loyal liegemen
should, for the present, eschew subjects of dissension or quarrel with
these sons of Shimei; which lesson of patience he enforced by the
comfortable assurance, that they could not long abstain from their old
rebellious practices; in which case, the Royalists would stand
exculpated before God and man, in extirpating them from the face of
the earth.