The latter stood calmly awaiting a fresh attack.

For a moment the ruffian hesitated, and then, goaded to fury by the taunting laughter of the lookers-on, was about to spring upon him when he was seized by two or three of the passengers.
"I reckon you have made a fool enough of yourself already," one of them said; "and we are not going to see a minister ill-treated, not if we know it." "You need not hold him," Vincent said.

"It is not because one wears a black coat and is adverse to fighting that one is not able to defend one's self.

We all learn the same things at college, whether we are going into the Church or any other profession.

You can let him alone if he really wants any more, which I do not believe.