When the town-house was locked on the club Tammas spoke out, but though the scandal ran from door to door, as I have seen a pig in a fluster do, the minister did not lose his place.

Tammas preserved the Bible, and showed it complacently to visitors as the present he got from Mr.Byars.

The minister knew this, and it turned his temper sour.

Tammas's proud moments, after that, were when he passed the minister.
Driven from the town-house, literature found a table with forms round it in a tavern hard by, where the club, lopped of its most respectable members, kept the blinds down and talked openly of Shakspeare.

It was a low-roofed room, with pieces of lime hanging from the ceiling and peeling walls.