There have been dispensations quite as mysterious, and Satan is evidently putting forth all his strength to resist the entrance of the Gospel into Milby Church.' 'You niver spoke a truer word than that, my dear,' said Mrs.Linnet, who accepted all religious phrases, but was extremely rationalistic in her interpretation; 'for if iver Old Harry appeared in a human form, it's that Dempster.

It was all through him as we got cheated out o' Pye's Croft, making out as the title wasn't good.

Such lawyer's villany! As if paying good money wasn't title enough to anything.

If your father as is dead and gone had been worthy to know it! But he'll have a fall some day, Dempster will.

Mark my words.' 'Ah, out of his carriage, you mean,' said Miss Pratt, who, in the movement occasioned by the clearing of the table, had lost the first part of Mrs.Linnet's speech.