'Truth is chiefly
injured--I mean, her force weakened, by her own supporters.'
'Then you agree with me,' said Maurice, 'as, in fact, every rational
person must.'
'Then you are with me,' said Lily, in the same breath; 'and you will
convince Maurice of the danger of this nonsense.'
'Umph,' sighed Claude, throwing himself into his father's arm-chair,
''tis a Herculean labour! It seems I agree with you both.'
'Why, every Christian must be with me, who has not lost his way in a
mist of his own raising,' said Lilias.
'Do you mean to say,' said Maurice, 'that these colours are not
produced by refraction? Look at them on those prisms;' and he
pointed to an old-fashioned lustre on the chimney-piece. 'I hope
this is not a part of the Christian faith.'
'Take care, Maurice,' and Claude's eyes were bent upon him in a
manner that made him shrink. And he added, 'Of course I do believe
that chapter about Noah. I only meant that the immediate cause of
the rainbow is the refraction of light. I did not mean to be
irreverent, only the girls took me up in such a way.'
'And I know well enough that you can make those colours by light on
drops of water,' said Lily.
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