I will run, if I can help it, no more risk for your passions; and I must confess myself anxious, if the devil will let me, of stopping right short in the old life and beginning a new one.

I have been bad enough, and done enough, to keep me at my prayers all the rest of my days, were I to live on to eternity." "This new spirit, I suppose, we owe to your visit to the last camp-meeting.

You will exhort, doubtless, yourself, before long, if you keep this track.

Why, what a prophet you will make among the crop-haired, Munro! what a brand from the burning!" "Look you, Guy, your sarcasm pleases me quite as little as it did the young fellow, who paid it back so much better than I can.

Be wise, if you can, while you are wary; if your words continue to come from the same nest, they will beget something more than words, my good fellow." "True, and like enough, Munro; and why do you provoke me to say them ?" replied Rivers, something more sedately.