After all, he was a brilliant and distinguished man, and had not a score of other girls wanted to marry him?
Oh, she would marry him and give up her life to the splendid duties which devolve upon the wife of a clergyman.
But just as she had made up her mind to face her fate, Mr.Holland's fate induced him to publish the book at which he had been working for some time.

It came out just when the girl was becoming resigned to her future by his side, and it attracted even more attention than the author had hoped it would achieve.
The book was titled "Revised Versions," and it was strikingly modern in design and in tone.

It purported to deal with several personages and numerous episodes of the Old Testament, not from the standpoint of the comparative philologist; not from the standpoint of the comparative mythologist, but from the standpoint of the modern man of common sense and average power of discrimination; and the result was that the breath of a good many people, especially clergymen, was taken from them, and that the Rev.George Holland became the best-known clergyman in England.
He dealt with the patriarchs in succession, and they fared very badly at his hands.

He showed that Abraham had not one good act recorded to his credit, and contrasted his duplicity with the magnanimity of the ruler of Egypt whom he visited.

He dwelt upon the Hagar episode, showing that the adulterer was also a murderer by intention, and so forth; while no words could be too strong to apply to Sara, his wife.