It [his face] looked honest, but you could never tell. According to local report the Vicar was a ritualist, and ritualists had odd ideas about the truth. They would, for instance, subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles and unblushingly invent ingenious ways to get round them.
D.L. Sayers, 'Shocks for the Inspector' in The Detection Club, The Floating Admiral (1931), 94
