I have seen a great many so-called religious people in my time.

People who had much to say about their-spiritual experiences and hopes of heaven.
But never one who so made obedience to the strict law of right, in all its plain, common-sense interpretations, a matter of common duty.

I do not believe that for anything this world could offer her, Mrs.
Montgomery would swerve a hair's breadth from justice.

I have been in the position to see her tempted; have, myself, been the tempter over and over again during the ten years in which I represented her claims to the Allen estate; but her principles were immovable as the hills.

Once, I shall never forget the incident--I pressed her to adopt a certain course of procedure, involving a law quibble, in order to get possession of the property.