Orange and Green: A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick. G. A. Henty

denouncing the Protestants, they very soon managed to get him changed for another.

      "What a funny thing it is, to be sure, that people should quarrel about their religion! After all, we believe all the same important things; and as to others, what does it matter, provided we all do our best in the way that seems right to us?"

      But this was too liberal for John. He had been brought up in too strait a sect to subscribe to such an opinion as this.

      "I do think it makes a difference, Walter," he said slowly.

      "I don't," Walter said. "It's just a matter of bringing up. If you had been born in the Castle, and I had been born in your place, you would have thought as I do, and I should have thought as you do; and of course, still more if you had been born in a Catholic country like Italy, where you would never have heard of Protestantism, and I had been born in a Protestant country like Holland, where I should never have had a chance of becoming a Catholic. Very few people ever change their religion. They just live and die as they have been born and educated."