But women will sometimes be wilful, and sure enough she consults with Father Clement more than I could wish; and yet when I have spoken with him myself, I have thought him so good and holy a man that I could have trusted my own salvation with him.

There are bad reports of him among the Dominicans, that is certain.

But what have we laymen to do with such things, my son?
Let us pay Mother Church her dues, give our alms, confess and do our penances duly, and the saints will bear us out." "Ay, truly; and they will have consideration," said the smith, "for any rash and unhappy blow that a man may deal in a fight, when his party was on defence, and standing up to him; and that's the only creed a man can live upon in Scotland, let your daughter think what she pleases.

Marry, a man must know his fence, or have a short lease of his life, in any place where blows are going so rife.

Five nobles to our altar have cleared me for the best man I ever had misfortune with." "Let us finish our flask, then," said the old glover; "for I reckon the Dominican tower is tolling midnight.