He said he did not doubt but that he would do the same with one of the archangels.

He afterwards sold Roscoe a watch at cost, but confessed to me that the works of the watch had been smuggled.

He said he was so fond of the parson that he felt he had to give him a chance of good things.

It was not uncommon for him to discourse of Roscoe's quality in the bar-rooms of Sunburst and Viking, in which he was ably seconded by Phil Boldrick, an eccentric, warm-hearted fellow, who was so occupied in the affairs of the villages generally, and so much an advisory board to the authorities, that he had little time left to progress industrially himself.
Once when a noted bully came to Viking, and, out of sheer bravado and meanness, insulted Roscoe in the streets, two or three river-drivers came forward to avenge the insult.

It was quite needless, for the clergyman had promptly taken the case in his own hands.