‘I shouldn’t,’ said Lord Nidderdale.  ’What’s the use of being beastly ill-natured?  I’m not very good at saying my prayers, but I do think there’s something in that bit about forgiving people.  Of course cheating isn’t very nice:  and it isn’t very nice for a fellow to play when he knows he can’t pay; but I don’t know that it’s worse than getting drunk like Dolly Longestaffe, or quarrelling with everybody as Grasslough does,—­or trying to marry some poor devil of a girl merely because she’s got money.  I believe in living in glass houses, but I don’t believe in throwing stones.  Do you ever read the Bible, Carbury?’

‘Read the Bible...