Excerpt from Interludes: Being Two Essays, a Farce, and Some Verses How often in the sad experience of life we have had to acknowledge the truth of this bitter saying. There was a certain Mr. Pye in Lincolnshire; he was out wardly a religious man and of the highest morals. He swindled everybody. Mr. Hastings was a man in Whom people placed implicit confidence 5 he was Chairman of Quarter Sessions, etc. Yet his trial and disgrace are fresh in our memories. Sir John Dean Paul was a saint among the Low Church party until he was found out. A thief turned Sir John's hypocrisy to some account when he asked for his prayers, and in the ardour of his' soul embraced Sir John's knees, and ran away with his watch. But, generally speaking, it is not easy to score 01 the hypocrite. It is he who scores off others. He takes them in, and he feeds on them. He is like some beautiful flowers we read about that open their petals to the fly and then seize upon it and devour it. The latest instance of the money grabbing hypocrite is that of the man Loughnan, who got out of poor Mr. Henry Morley for the advancement of true religion and virtue. It is a curious thing that from the days of Judas to the present day the religious hypocrite always manages to get the control of the money-bag. He is the man whom everybody trusts before he is found out, and it is often quite wonderful for what a long time he will flourish like a green bay tree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.