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Lay Morals

CHAPTER II--FRANCIE
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To trust a note to him! But I'll give the benefit of my opinions to Lady Whitecross when we two forgather.

Let her look to herself! I have no patience with half-hearted carlines, that complies on the Lord's day morning with the kirk, and comes taigling the same night to the conventicle.

The one or the other! is what I say: hell or heaven--Haddie's abominations or the pure word of God dreeping from the lips of Mr.Arnot, '"Like honey from the honeycomb That dreepeth, sweeter far."' My lady was now fairly launched, and that upon two congenial subjects: the deficiencies of the Lady Whitecross and the turpitudes of the whole Crozer race--which, indeed, had never been conspicuous for respectability.

She pursued the pair of them for twenty minutes on the clock with wonderful animation and detail, something of the pulpit manner, and the spirit of one possessed.

'O hellish compliance!' she exclaimed.


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