A Victorian Brawler

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 22

A Victorian Brawler

„. The clerical .'.preux chevalier ' who -carded- -the. : torjan- Good. Shepherd nuns in his -haste, is now.< -repenting at, his leisure.. He varied his -chivalrous* \divarshun ' by an attack -upon- the Archbishop- .of ,, .Melbourne which; was sufficient to- make the assailant a social outlaw. -It was,, the old familiar -.case of a li.tlle, man seeking notoriety, by throwing, mud, .at a great, man. He won notoriety. But it was not quite the pattern of, notoriety that -he /sought- or -desired. His charges were one by.. one dynamited— the, latest by the very flattering report of the Assistant -.Chief Inspector (a non-Catholic) in regard to the South Melbourne Orphanage school. The demands of poetic justice are rounded, off by the, added sympathy .and support which the detainer of pious and ievo'ted women has won for them and their -work. A-n< '.thus ' out ' . of intended evil come'th -good. The greaiT'work goes grandly and 'serenely on. II is the old Arab proverb once more : ' The dogs bark, the 'caravan /passes.'".