It was her father's dying wish that she should make public profession of her--what do you call it--of the denomination she belonged to, as soon as she felt herself fit to do it: so when he was dead she tried and tried, and didn't get any more fit; and at last she screwed herself up to the pitch, and thought she must undergo the ceremony out of pure reverence for his memory.

It was very short-sighted of her father to put her in such a position: because she is now very sad, as she feels she can never try again after such a sermon as was delivered against her.' Somerset presumed that Miss Power need not have heard this Knox or Bossuet of hers if she had chosen to go away?
'She did not hear it in the face of the congregation; but from the vestry.

She told me some of it when she reached home.

Would you believe it, the man who preached so bitterly is a tenant of hers?
I said, "Surely you will turn him out of his house ?"--But she answered, in her calm, deep, nice way, that she supposed he had a perfect right to preach against her, that she could not in justice molest him at all.

I wouldn't let him stay if the house were mine.