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THE CAXTONS.—PART XIII.
CHAPTER LXVI.
St Chrysostom, in his work onThe Priesthood, defends deceit, if for agood purpose, by many Scripturalexamples; ends his first book by assertingthat it is often necessary, andthat much benefit may arise from it;and begins his second book by sayingthat it ought not to be called deceit,but "good management."
Good management, then, let mecall the innocent arts by which I nowsought to insinuate my project intofavour and assent with my unsuspectingfamily. And first I beganwith Roland. I easily induced himto read some of the books, full of thecharm of Australian life, which Trevanionhad sent me; and so happilydid those descriptions suit his ownerratic tastes, and the free, half-savageman that lay rough and largewithin that soldierly nature, that hehimself, as it were, seemed to suggestmy own ardent desire—sighed, as thecareworn Trevanion had done, that"he was not m