When they argued with him, saying that the thing was done, that everybody knew it was done, and that it always would be done, by other men as brilliant as, and less scrupulous than, the Homilist; he admitted the force of their arguments.
"The Dop Doctor"
Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
And indeed the little Homilist only spoke too truly.
"The Virginians"
William Makepeace Thackeray