Bursting into the kirk she called the office-bearers to her assistance, whereupon the minister in miniature raised his voice and demanded the why and wherefore of the ungodly disturbance.

Great was the hubbub, but the door was fast, and a compromise had to be arrived at.

The old lady consented for once to stand in the passage, but not without pressing her hands to her ears.

You may smile at Tibbie, but ah! I know what she was at a sick bedside.

I have seen her when the hard look had gone from her eyes, and it would ill become me to smile too.
As with all the churches in Thrums, care had been taken to make the Auld Licht one much too large.