Then, what clergyman, of our faith, would marry me to anybody ?" "That, too, you know is not just, Phil.

You were innocent of wrong-doing; you were chivalrous enough to make no defence--" "Wrong-doing?
Nina, I was such a fool that I was innocent of sense enough to do either good or evil.

Yet I did do harm; there never was such a thing as a harmless fool.

But all I can do is to go and sin no more; yet there is little merit in good conduct if one hides in a hole too small to admit temptation.

No; there are laws civil and laws ecclesiastical; and sometimes I think a man is justified in repealing the form and retaining the substance of them, and remoulding it for purposes of self-government; as I do, now.