Good-bye.' Janet made the interview as short as she could, but it was not short enough to escape the observation of her husband, who, as she feared, was on his mid-day return from his office at the other end of the street, and this offence of hers, in speaking to Mr.Jerome, was the frequently recurring theme of Mr.Dempster's objurgatory domestic eloquence.
Associating the loss of his old client with Mr.Tryan's influence, Dempster began to know more distinctly why he hated the obnoxious curate.
But a passionate hate, as well as a passionate love, demands some leisure and mental freedom.

Persecution and revenge, like courtship and toadyism, will not prosper without a considerable expenditure of time and ingenuity, and these are not to spare with a man whose law-business and liver are both beginning to show unpleasant symptoms.

Such was the disagreeable turn affairs were taking with Mr.Dempster, and, like the general distracted by home intrigues, he was too much harassed himself to lay ingenious plans for harassing the enemy.
Meanwhile, the evening lecture drew larger and larger congregations; not perhaps attracting many from that select aristocratic circle in which the Lowmes and Pittmans were predominant, but winning the larger proportion of Mr.Crewe's morning and afternoon hearers, and thinning Mr.Stickney's evening audiences at Salem.

Evangelicalism was making its way in Milby, and gradually diffusing its subtle odour into chambers that were bolted and barred against it.

The movement, like all other religious 'revivals', had a mixed effect.