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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and philotheoparoptesism,[1] he was not sorry to encourage
his daughter's choice of her confessor in brother Michael,
who had more jollity and less hypocrisy than any of his fraternity,
and was very little anxious to disguise his love of the good things
of this world under the semblance of a sanctified exterior.
The friar and Matilda had often sung duets together, and had been
accustomed to the baron's chiming in with a stormy capriccio,
which was usually charmed into silence by some sudden turn
in the witching melodies of Matilda. They had therefore
naturally calculated, as far as their wild spirits calculated at all,
on the same effects from the same causes. But the circumstances
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