The vicar relapsed into silence, making no attempt to complete his unfinished sentence; then he stole a glance at the saturnine face of the stranger, and from that moment became an almost liberal-minded theologian; He had had an object-lesson that was to last him all his life, and he never forgot it.
"Well, Austin," said Aunt Charlotte, when they were walking home, a few minutes later, "of course you _ought_ to have a severe scolding for your behaviour this afternoon; but the fact is, my dear, that on this occasion I do not feel inclined to give you one.

That man was perfectly horrible, and deserved everything he got.

I only hope it may have done him good.

I couldn't have believed such people existed at the present day.

The most charitable view to take of him is that he can scarcely be in his right mind." "What, because he wanted to burn somebody alive ?" said Austin.