Then I saw you start, and you spoke pleasantly to your men; and I said to myself, 'that is the master I would serve, if he would let me.' "Try me, sir, and if you do not find me faithful, honest, and true to you, tell your men to string me up to a bough.

I do not drink, and have been in so many services that, ragged as you see me, I can yet behave so as not to do discredit to you." Philip hesitated.

There was no mistaking the earnestness with which the youth spoke.
"Are you a Catholic or a Huguenot ?" he asked.
"I know nothing of the difference between them," Pierre replied.
"How should I?
No one has ever troubled about me, one way or the other.

When my mother lived I went to Mass with her; since then I have gone nowhere.

I have had no Sunday clothes.