This discourse is all folly, however--you haven't a minute to lose--shall I order your horse ?" "Yes, you had better, Lanigan," replied the other, with a dogged appearance of cowardice and revenge.

He could not forgive Lanigan the illustration that involved the comparison of the hangman; still his conscience and his cowardice both whispered to him that the cook was in the right.
This night was an eventful one.

The course of our narrative brings us and our readers to the house of Captain Smellpriest, who had for his next-door neighbor the stalwart curate of the parish, the Rev.Samson Strong, to whom some allusion has been I already made in these pages.

Now the difference between Smellpriest and Whitecraft was this--Smellpriest was not a magistrate, as Whitecraft was, and in his priest-hunting expeditions only acted upon warrants issued by some bigoted and persecuting magistrate or other who lived in the district.
But as his propensity to hunt those unfortunate persons was known, the execution of the warrants was almost in every instance entrusted to his hands.

It was not so with Sir Robert, who, being himself a magistrate, might be said to have been in the position at once of judge and executioner.