text:  What!--had the history of the last twelvemonth been a cheat--a fable?--How was it--where was I? What!--could Mr Clayton talk thus--could HE descend to falsehood and deceit--HE the immaculate and infallible? What a moral earthquake was here! What a re-enacting of the fall of man! But every eye was upon me and the Church was silent as death waiting for my rising