She asked him whether he wanted her to do what she thought to be sinful.

'It is very sinful hating people as you hate my sons' families,' he said in his wrath.

'No, Nicholas, I do not hate their families.

I certainly do not hate Margaret, nor yet Fanny;--but I think that they live in opposition to the Gospel.

Am I to belie my own belief ?' Now the old man was quite certain that his wife did hate both Robert's wife and William's and would not admit in her own mind this distinction between the conduct of persons and the persons themselves.