Compose yourself; be calm.

Now! What the devil is come to the parish ?" "Ah, sir, what indeed ?" replied Mr.Stirn: and then laying the forefinger of the right hand on the palm of the left he narrated the case.
"And whom do you suspect?
Be calm now; don't speak in a passion.

You are a witness, sir,--a dispassionate, unprejudiced witness.

Zounds and fury! this is the most insolent, unprovoked, diabolical--but whom do you suspect, I say ?" Stirn twirled his hat, elevated his eyebrows, jerked his thumb over his shoulder, and whispered, "I hear as how the two Papishers slept at your honour's last night." "What, dolt! do you suppose Dr.Rickeybockey got out of his warm bed to bung up the holes in my new stocks ?" "Noa; he's too cunning to do it himself, but he may have been semminating.

He's mighty thick with Parson Dale, and your honour knows as how the parson set his face agin the stocks.