At any rate, the property was to be sold for a few hundred dollars.
Getting wind of this decision, Andrew promptly appeared at his brother's house and offered to buy it.

But Mrs.Abigail couldn't think of it.
Andrew had always been her enemy, and though she forgave him, she would not on any account sell him an inch of the land.

It would not be right.
He had claimed that part of it belonged to him, and to let him have it would be to admit his claim.
"Andrew," she said, "you do not believe in the millennium, and people say that you are a skeptic.

You want to cheat us out of what you think a valuable piece of property.

And you'll find yourself at the last judgment with the weight of this sin on your heart.