"
"I was not thinking of your father, but of the clergy generally, and you
DO know it to be a lie."
"It is not true of my brother, and, excepting my father and brother, you
have not been in company with parsons, as you call them, for half an
hour in your life."
"Do you mean to tell me you have any doubts about this discredited
rubbish?"
"If I have I would rather not speak about them now. Jim, dear Jim, let
us drop the subject and talk of something else."
He was walking by her side, with his hands in his coat pockets. She
drew out one of his hands; he did not return the pressure, and presently
released himself.
"I thought you were to be my intellectual companion. I have heard you
say yourself that a marriage which is not a marriage of mind is no
marriage."
"But, Jim, is there nothing in the world to think about but this?"
"There is nothing so important. Are we to be dumb all our lives about
what you say is religion?"
They separated and soon afterwards the engagement was broken off. Jim
had really loved Elizabeth, but at that time he was furious against what
he called "creeds.
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