In fact I don't approve of what I hear of her, and I have thought of consulting some of my brethren in the presbytery on the matter before taking steps myself.

I won't have the young people in my parish oppressed in such a fashion.

Terrified with dogs too! It is shameful." "She's a very decent woman, Mistress Shand," said the housekeeper.
[Illustration] "I don't dispute her decency, Mrs.Mitchell; but I doubt very much whether she is fit to have the charge of children; and as she is a friend of yours, you will be doing her a kindness to give her a hint to that effect.

It _may_ save the necessity for my taking further and more unpleasant steps." "Indeed, sir, by your leave, it would be hard lines to take the bread out of the mouth of a lone widow woman, and bring her upon the parish with a bad name to boot.

She's supported herself for years with her school, and been a trouble to nobody." "Except the lambs of the flock, Mrs.Mitchell .-- I like you for standing up for your friend; but is a woman, because she is lone and a widow, to make a Moloch of herself, and have the children sacrificed to her in that way?
It's enough to make idiots of some of them.