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"Its Precepts Are Eternal;" Or, The Practice Of A Freemason's Daughter.
peer , with the earnestness and vivacity of a man who fancies that he has made a palpable hit , " can you deny it ?" " On the contrary , I exult in it . " " It is a political society , " remarked Lord Sarston , with deepening gravity ; " O'Connell , sir , —O'Connell is a Mason . " " So is Dr . Howley , the present Archbishop of Canterbury , "
was Heathfield ' s prompt and astounding rejoinder . " The Society , I am assured , is anti-monarchical , " pursued his Excellency . " An assertion difficult to be reconciled with the fact , that our present Grand Master is the son and brother of a king ; and that most of the princes of the Blood Royal have been affiliated with us . "
" And essentially republican , " persisted the Ambassador . " Strange , then , my Lord , that Lord Moira , so unflinching a friend to his Prince , and so devoted a servant to his country , should for years have borne high office among the Fraternity !" " He was a noble-minded , chivalrous , generous being , " said the Ambassador , with some approach to feeling ; " and I was
little aware that you could claim him as a Brother . " " As certainly and as surely as we can say that politics under no guise can enter a Masons' Lodge ; that the very Constitution of our Order banishes them from our precincts . Your Lordship looks incredulous ; the day may come when you will admit that Masonry has happily nothing to do with
politics . " "Possibly ; but Austria holds the contrary , and distrusts the entire Fraternity . I should recommend -you , Mr . Heathfield , to curtail your stay in Vienna . " " I am ready , my Lord , to quit it the moment my papers are restored to meand the debt due to our firm is
dis-, charged . " " True ; that reminds me that your papers , on examination , contain nothing of a monetary nature . " Maurice started . " They relate , I am assured , exclusively to private matters . " Maurice looked still more bewildered .
" Even Herr Griit , —I allude to him thus distinctly because you suspected him of originating this seizure , —seemed surprised , and even disappointed , at the harmless nature of their contents . " " My Lord , " cried the young merchant , " those papers contained securities for monies which Herr Griit , as the agent of the Emperor— "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
"Its Precepts Are Eternal;" Or, The Practice Of A Freemason's Daughter.
peer , with the earnestness and vivacity of a man who fancies that he has made a palpable hit , " can you deny it ?" " On the contrary , I exult in it . " " It is a political society , " remarked Lord Sarston , with deepening gravity ; " O'Connell , sir , —O'Connell is a Mason . " " So is Dr . Howley , the present Archbishop of Canterbury , "
was Heathfield ' s prompt and astounding rejoinder . " The Society , I am assured , is anti-monarchical , " pursued his Excellency . " An assertion difficult to be reconciled with the fact , that our present Grand Master is the son and brother of a king ; and that most of the princes of the Blood Royal have been affiliated with us . "
" And essentially republican , " persisted the Ambassador . " Strange , then , my Lord , that Lord Moira , so unflinching a friend to his Prince , and so devoted a servant to his country , should for years have borne high office among the Fraternity !" " He was a noble-minded , chivalrous , generous being , " said the Ambassador , with some approach to feeling ; " and I was
little aware that you could claim him as a Brother . " " As certainly and as surely as we can say that politics under no guise can enter a Masons' Lodge ; that the very Constitution of our Order banishes them from our precincts . Your Lordship looks incredulous ; the day may come when you will admit that Masonry has happily nothing to do with
politics . " "Possibly ; but Austria holds the contrary , and distrusts the entire Fraternity . I should recommend -you , Mr . Heathfield , to curtail your stay in Vienna . " " I am ready , my Lord , to quit it the moment my papers are restored to meand the debt due to our firm is
dis-, charged . " " True ; that reminds me that your papers , on examination , contain nothing of a monetary nature . " Maurice started . " They relate , I am assured , exclusively to private matters . " Maurice looked still more bewildered .
" Even Herr Griit , —I allude to him thus distinctly because you suspected him of originating this seizure , —seemed surprised , and even disappointed , at the harmless nature of their contents . " " My Lord , " cried the young merchant , " those papers contained securities for monies which Herr Griit , as the agent of the Emperor— "