If they fall, it is when the voice of conscience is lost in the whirlwind of passion, and counsel is darkened by the tumultuous pleadings of the heart.

Their sin is that they will, most of them, allow themselves to be put in positions favourable to the development of these disagreeable influences.

It is not safe to light cigarettes in a powder factory.

If Geoffrey had done what he ought to have done, he would never have gone to Bryngelly, and there would have been no story to tell, or no more than there usually is.
At length Mr.Granger and his guest reached Bryngelly; there was nobody to meet them, for nobody knew that they were coming, so they walked up to the Vicarage.

It was strange to Geoffrey once more to pass by the little church through those well-remembered, wind-torn pines and see that low long house.