That his father was not so every one knew, but he was not responsible for his father.

Mr.Bolton seemed to think that the argument was good;--but Mrs.Bolton was of opinion that to become willingly the daughter-in-law of an infidel, would be to throw oneself with one's eyes open in the way of perdition.

Hester through all this declared that nothing should now turn her from the man she loved, 'Not though he were an infidel himself ?' said the terror-stricken mother.
'Nothing!' said Hester, bravely.

'Of course I should try to change him.' A more wretched woman than Mrs.Bolton might not probably then have been found.

She suddenly perceived herself to be quite powerless with the child over whom her dominion had hitherto been supreme.