And my mother?
Is she imbued with our opinion of his priestship ?" "Not exactly, I fear.

However, Heaven bless her, she is too soft to say 'nay.' But those Jesuits are so smooth-tongued to women.

'Gad, they threaten damnation with such an irresistible air, that they are as much like William the Conqueror as Edward the Confessor.

Ha! master Aubrey, have you become amorous of the old Jacobite, that you sigh over his crabbed writing, as if it were a _billet-doux_ ?" "There seems a great deal of feeling in what he says, Sir," said Aubrey, returning the letter to my uncle.
"Feeling!" cried the knight; "ay, the reverend gentry always have a marvellously tender feeling for their own interest,--eh, Morton ?" "Right, dear sir," said I, wishing to change a subject which I knew might hurt Aubrey; "but should we not join yon party of dames and damsels?
I see they are about to make a water excursion." "'Sdeath, sir, with all my heart," cried the good-natured knight; "I love to see the dear creatures amuse themselves; for, to tell you the truth, Morton," said he, sinking his voice into a knowing whisper, "the best thing to keep them from playing the devil is to encourage them in playing the fool!" and, laughing heartily at the jest he had purloined from one of his favourite writers, Sir William led the way to the water-party..