He shook hands with us all round.

I really thought Mrs.
Townsend would have looked him into the river when he came to her." "She always was the quintessence of absurdity and prejudice," said he.
"Oh, Herbert!" exclaimed Aunt Letty.
"Well; and what of 'Oh, Herbert ?' I say she is so.

If you and Mary and Emmeline did not look him into the river when he shook hands with you, why should she do so?
He is an ordained priest even according to her own tenets,--only she knows nothing of what her own tenets are." "I'll tell you what they are.

They are the substantial, true, and holy doctrines of the Protestant religion, founded on the gospel.
Mrs.Townsend is a thoroughly Protestant woman; one who cannot abide the sorceries of popery." "Hates them as a mad dog hates water; and with the same amount of judgment.

We none of us wish to be drowned; but nevertheless there are some good qualities in water." "But there are no good qualities in popery," said Aunt Letty, with her most extreme energy.
"Are there not ?" said Herbert.