I call that pitch which I believe to be wrong, and if I swerve but a hair's-breadth wittingly towards what I believe to be evil, then I shall be touching pitch and then I shall be defiled.

I did not say that he was pitch.

Judge not and ye shall not be judged.' But if ever judgment was pronounced, and a verdict given, and penalties awarded, such was done now in regard to John Caldigate.
'But, mamma, why will it be doing evil to be gracious to your daughter's husband ?' The woman had an answer to this appeal very clearly set forth in her mind though she was unable to produce it clearly in words.

When the marriage had been first discussed she had opposed it with all her power, because she had believed the man to be wicked.

He was unregenerate;--and when she had put it to her husband and to the Nicholases and to the Daniels to see whether such was not the case, they had not contradicted her.