If his brethren there would like him to tell them how they might apply the law, this exemplary Christian would point to the faithless Irishman, Arthur Mountjoy.

"Buy not of him, sell not to him; avoid him if he approaches you; starve him out of the place.

I might say more, boys--you know what I mean." To hear the latter part of this effort of oratory, without uttering a word of protest, was a trial of endurance under which Iris trembled.
The secondary effect of the priest's address was to root the conviction of Arthur's danger with tenfold tenacity in her mind.

After what she had just heard, even the slightest delay in securing his safety might be productive of deplorable results.

She astonished a barefooted boy, on the outskirts of the crowd, by a gift of sixpence, and asked her way to the farm.