It was a weakness that had marked the history of the world; and it had been a failing with the greatest of intellects.

They would yet show to the people of Nyack what could be done with the right sort of enterprise.

The honest old Dutchmen were in high glee over the turn affairs at the new church had taken.

They got together in Hanz Toodleburg's veranda, drank their beer, and smoked their pipes, and wished the devil might get the new preacher, "what comes t'down to raise t'tevil mit de peoples, and raises t'tevil mit he self." The stranger, of whom mention has been made, was more seriously troubled.

He heard the news of Holbrook's departure with a sad heart, for he was the kind brother of a young woman to whom the delinquent had made a solemn vow to marry.