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est possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing
with confiscation of estate, real and personal, to the crown.
Loyal to the highest constituted power in the land, actuated
by an innate love of rectitude his aims would be the strict
maintenance of public order, the repression of many abuses
though not of all simultaneously (every measure of reform
or retrenchment being a preliminary solution to be con-
tained by fluxion in the final solution), the upholding of the
letter of the law (common, statute and law merchant) against
all traversers in covin and trespassers acting in contraven-
tion of bylaws and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass
and petty larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete
by desuetude, all orotund instigators of international per-
secution, all perpetuators of international animosities, all
menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all recalcitrant
violators of domestic connubiality.
Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest
youth.
To Master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had
divulged his disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant)
church (to which his father Rudolf Virag (later Rudolph
Bloom) had been converted from the Israelitic faith and
communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting Chris-
tianity among the jews) subsequently abjured by him in
favour of Roman catholicism at the epoch of and with a
view to his matrimony in 1888. To Daniel Magrane and
Francis Wade in 1882 during a juvenile friendship (termi-
nated by the premature emigration of the former) he had
advocated during nocturnal perambulations the political