"I've laid it before the Lord, but He don't seem to help.

There's two voices inside o' me.

'Tis a terrible responsibility." "But the people: what are you afraid of their doing ?" "I don't know.

You don't know what a runaway hoss will do, but you're afeared all the same." He sank his voice.

"There's wantonness, for one thing--six love-children born in the parish this year, and more coming.