Yet I have known them speak sooth as well as other men.

But I myself would sooner put confidence in the word of one of the other faith.

They hold not with falsehood in a good cause as our father confessors do.

Wherefore, if it were for that alone, I would sooner be a heretic, albeit there be many things about my father's faith that I love and cling to." This answer caused Martin to look more closely at his nephew, discerning in him something of the fearless Puritan spirit, as well as that instinctive desire to weigh and judge for himself that was one of his own characteristics.

Papist the lad might be by training and inheritance, but it was plain that at present he was no bigot.
He would not strive to corrupt his cousins; rather were they likely to influence and draw him.
Susan flounced back to the kitchen without another word, only muttering to herself prognostications of evil if such a popinjay were admitted into the household.