CHAPTER XXIV.
DRAGGING.
Yes, God is indeed more merciful than man.

There are many things worse than death.

There is a fold where no wolves enter; a country where a loving heart shall not find its own love turned into poison; a place where the wicked cease from troubling--yes, even in this heretical day, let us be orthodox enough to believe that there is a land where no Smith Westcotts ever come.
There are many cases in which it were better to die.

It is easy enough to say it before it comes.

Albert Charlton had said--how many times!--that he would rather see Katy dead than married to Westcott.