He'll find plenty of time for gossiping by and by, I don't doubt.' Linda could say nothing further, for an unbidden tear moistened her eyelid as she heard her mother speak so harshly of her lover.
Gertrude, however, took up the cudgels for him, and so did Captain Cuttwater.
'I think you are a little hard upon him, mamma,' said Gertrude, 'particularly when you know that, as a rule, he always goes to church.

I have heard you say yourself what an excellent churchman he is.' 'Young men change sometimes,' said Mrs.Woodward.
'Upon my word, Bessie, I think you are very uncharitable this fine Sunday morning,' said the captain.

'I wonder how you'll feel if we have that chapter about the beam and the mote.' Mrs.Woodward did not quite like being scolded by her uncle before her daughters, but she said nothing further.

Katie, however, looked daggers at the old man from out her big bright eyes.

What right had any man, were he ever so old, ever so much an uncle, to scold her mamma?
Katie was inclined to join her mother and take Harry Norman's side, for it was Harry Norman who owned the boat.
They were now at the church door, and they entered without saying anything further.