He had his oldest coat on, his favorite pipe between his lips, and a bit of domestic carpentering on his knee at which he was fiddling away; and, being perfectly happy, was also perfectly amiable.

'Richard Leyburn was a fanatic--as mild as you please, but immovable.' 'What line ?' 'Evangelical, with a dash of Quakerism.

He lent me Madame Guyon's Life once to read.

I didn't appreciate it.

I told him that for all her religion she seemed to me to have a deal of the vixen in her.