He concurred in believing this to be desirable, for the manners that had surrounded him were very stiff.

Yet the memory of the greeting remained with him, a thing to be wondered at while he turned the whispering leaves of his great books.
Susannah had travelled from the Canadian fort in the care of the preacher Finney.

He was a revivalist of great renown, possessing a lawyer-like keenness of intellect, much rhetorical power, and Pauline singleness of purpose.

That night he ate and slept in the house.
The original Calvinism of the Croom household had already been modified by the waves of Methodist revival from the Eastern States.

Finney was an Independent, but Martha Croom had an abounding respect for him; his occasional visits were epochs in her life.