He has set the Dissenters and the Church people by the ears; and a rising senator like myself, of whose services the country is very much in need, will find it inconvenient when he puts up for the honour of representing St Ogg's in Parliament.
Most of Mr Spray's hearers, however, were incapable of following his subtleties, and many old-fashioned Dissenters were much pained by his "siding with the Catholics"; while others thought he had better let politics alone.
At a vote to extend the previous bailout package in February, a record number of dissenters from the chancellor's conservative camp showed growing impatience with the anti-austerity government in Athens, with 29 voting against it.