He was an older man, with a genial, bearded face.

I think he belonged to that party which takes its name from the Evangel of whose purity it professes itself the guardian.
"You are going to this entertainment which Mr.and Mrs.Toyner are giving ?" The cordiality of his common-place remark had a certain restraint in it.
"You are going also ?" "No; it is not a house at which I visit.

I have lived here for twenty-five years, and of course I have known Mr.Toyner more or less all that time.

I do not know how I shall be able to work on the same Council with him; but we shall see.

We, who believe in the truth of religion, must hold our own if we can." I was to be the master of the new schools.