Harry could have heard him for an hour more, and thought he had not been five minutes in the pulpit.

The gentlefolks in the great pew were very much enlivened by the discourse.

Once or twice, Harry, who could see the pew where the house servants sate, remarked these very attentive; and especially Gumbo, his own man, in an attitude of intense consternation.

But the smockfrocks did not seem to heed, and clamped out of church quite unconcerned.
Gaffer Brown and Gammer Jones took the matter as it came, and the rosy-cheeked, red-cloaked village lasses sate under their broad hats entirely unmoved.

My lord, from his pew, nodded slightly to the clergyman in the pulpit, when that divine's head and wig surged up from the cushion.
"Sampson has been strong to-day," said his lordship.