But I am sadly exercised to know what she is at heart.

Heaven supply me with fortitude to contest her wild opinions, and intractability! But she has sweet virtues, and her conduct at times can be most endearing.' 'I believe it!' said Somerset, with more fervour than mere politeness required.
'Sometimes I think those Stancy towers and lands will be a curse to her.
The spirit of old papistical times still lingers in the nooks of those silent walls, like a bad odour in a still atmosphere, dulling the iconoclastic emotions of the true Puritan.

It would be a pity indeed if she were to be tainted by the very situation that her father's indomitable energy created for her.' 'Do not be concerned about her,' said Somerset gently.

'She's not a Paedobaptist at heart, although she seems so.' Mr.Woodwell placed his finger on Somerset's arm, saying, 'If she's not a Paedobaptist, or Episcopalian; if she is not vulnerable to the mediaeval influences of her mansion, lands, and new acquaintance, it is because she's been vulnerable to what is worse: to doctrines beside which the errors of Paaedobaptists, Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, are but as air.' 'How?
You astonish me.' 'Have you heard in your metropolitan experience of a curious body of New Lights, as they think themselves ?' The minister whispered a name to his listener, as if he were fearful of being overheard.
'O no,' said Somerset, shaking his head, and smiling at the minister's horror.

'She's not that; at least, I think not..