interest in Church or Chapel or their differences, who view sins in
an altogether different perspective from ours; whom we enlisted to do
this work because they were hungry and at the moment saw no better
job in prospect: whom we have taught to despise us while they protect
us.

"The sins of our enemy are evident. But if _We_ say we have no sin,
we shall deceive ourselves and the truth will not be in us."


"Did you ever hear a feebler or a more idiotic sermon?" demanded Mrs
Polsue of Miss Oliver on their way home down the valley.

"If ever a man had his chance to improve an occasion--"

"Tut! I say nothing of his incapacity. There are some men that
can't rise even when 'tis a question of all Europe at war. But did
you hear the light he made, or tried to make, of Sabbath-breaking?"

"I didn't hear all that," Miss Oliver confessed: "or not to notice.
It seemed so funny his getting up at that hour and dangling his legs
on a wall."

"We will press to have a married man planned to us next time," said
Mrs Polsue. "A wife wouldn't allow it."

"Do you suppose he _smoked?_" asked Miss Oliver.

"I shouldn't wonder. . . . He certainly does it at home, for I took
the trouble to smell his window-curtains; and at an hour like that,