"Paulina Maria looks as ef she'd been put to soak in rain-water overnight," Simon Basset said once, after she had gone out of the store.

Everybody called her Paulina Maria--never Mrs.Judd, nor Mrs.Adoniram Judd.
The village women were, as a rule, full of piety.

Paulina Maria was austere.

She had the spirit to have scourged herself had she once convicted herself of wrong; but that she had never done.

The power of self-blame was not in her.