He laughed good-naturedly, and said there was considerable truth in them.

He thought he could tell when people's minds were wandering, by their looks.

In the earlier years of his ministry he had sometimes noticed this, when he was preaching; -- very little of late years.

Sometimes, when his colleague was preaching, he observed this kind of inattention; but after all, it was not so very unnatural.

I will say, by the way, that it is a rule I have long followed, to tell my worst thoughts to my minister, and my best thoughts to the young people I talk with.] -- I want to make a literary confession now, which I believe nobody has made before me.