Indeed, the gentleman had no taste for the vanities of the world, and parted his hair in the middle to save trouble.

The ordinary observer might easily have mistaken him for a school-master out of employment and in distress.
That such a man was to upset the settled opinions of a big town, few persons would have believed.

Such, however, was this odd-looking little man's mission, and there was no end of new ideas contained in that little bumpy forehead of his.
The new arrival was the much-expected Reverend Warren Holbrook, from Dogtown last.

As I have said before, he looked askance and inquisitively at every one he met as he walked up the lane.

He bowed, too, and had a smile for all the females; then he enquired the name and condition of those who lived in each house he came to--how many children they had, and whether they were boys or girls.