"Go to Court and preach, sir." A sudden fury seemed to come over him, and he lost the gentleness with which he had last addressed her.
"The Word shall be heard at the Court," he cried, "in louder accents than mine.

Their cup is full, the measure of their iniquity is pressed down and running over.

All who live shall see." "Like enough," said Nell, as though the matter were grown very tedious, and she yawned just a little; but, as she glanced at me, a merry light gleamed in her eyes.

"And what is to befall Simon here ?" she asked.
He turned on me with a start, seeming to have forgotten my presence.
"This young man ?" he asked, looking full in my face.

"Why, his face is honest; if he choose his friends well, he may do well." "I am of his friends," said Nell, and I defy any man on earth to have given the lie to such a claim so made.
"And for you, may the Lord soften your heart," said Phineas to her.
"Some say it's too soft already," said Nell.
"You will see me again," said he to her, and moved towards the door.