You know how things get round." "Well; and what did she say ?" "I'll tell you her very words, sir; and they were these, if you'll excuse me.

'Poor dear gentleman,' says she, 'if he thinks chapel-going so wrong, why does he dare drive folks to chapel?
I wonder, every time he looks at that deep sea, he don't remember what the Lord said about it, and those who cause his little ones to offend.'" Frank was somewhat awed.

The thought was new; the application of the text, as his own scholarship taught him, even more exact than Grace had fancied.
"Then she was not angry ?" "She, sir! You couldn't anger her if you tore her in pieces with hot pincers, as they did those old martyrs she's always telling about." "Good-bye, Willis," said Frank, in a hopeless tone of voice, and sauntered to the pier-end, down the steps, and along the lower pier-way, burdened with many thoughts.

He came up to the knot of chatting sailors.

Not one of them touched his cap, or moved out of the way for him.