"There appears to be no discrimination shown whatever
in the distribution of relief. The deserving and the undeserving are
all classed together. I could not possibly approve of any charity
conducted upon such lines, nor, I think, could any good churchwoman."
"Mr. Brooks thinks," Sybil remarked, with her mouth full of cake, "that
it is the undeserving who are in the greatest need of help."
"One could believe anything," the bishop's wife said stiffly, "of a man
who adopted such principles as that. And although I do not as a rule
approve of Mr. Lavilette or his paper, I am seriously inclined to agree
with him in some of his strictures upon Mr. Brooks."
Sybil laughed softly.
"I hadn't read them," she remarked. "Mother doesn't allow the man's
paper in the house. Do you really mean that you have it at the palace,
Mrs. Endicott?"
The bishop's wife stiffened.
"Mr. Lavilette has at times done great service to the community by his
exposure of frauds of all sorts, especially charitable frauds," she
said. "It is possible that he may shortly add to the number."
Lord Arranmore shook his head slowly.
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