Do not let us palter with each other, Hester! There are the sheep,--and there are the goats! Of which is he?
According to the teaching of your early years, in which flock would he be found if account were taken now ?' There was something so terrible in this that the young wife who was thus called upon to denounce her husband separated herself by some steps from her mother, retreating back to a chair in which she seated herself.

'Do you remember, mamma, the words you said just now?
Judge not and ye shall not be judged.' 'Nor do I judge.' 'And how does it go on?
Forgive and ye shall be forgiven.' 'Neither do I judge, nor can I forgive.' This she said, putting all her emphasis on the pronoun, and thereby declaring her own humility.

'But the great truths of my religion are dear to me.

I will not trust myself in the way of sinners, because by some worldly alliance to which I myself was no consenting party, I have been brought into worldly contact with them.

I at any rate will be firm.