You can do them no good when they have once got it.

You may prevent dozens from having it in the next four-and-twenty hours, if you will be guided by me." "But my business is with their souls, Thurnall." "Exactly;--to give them the consolations of religion, as they call it.
You will give them to the people who have not taken it.

You may bring them safe through it by simply keeping up their spirits; while if you waste your time on poor dying wretches--" "Thurnall, you must not talk so! I will do all you ask: but my place is at the death-bed, as well as elsewhere.

These perishing souls are in my care." "And how do you know, pray, that they are perishing ?" answered Tom, with something very like a sneer.

"And if they were, do you honestly believe that any talk of yours can change in five minutes a character which has been forming for years, or prevent a man's going where he ought to go,-- which, I suppose, is the place to which he deserves to go ?" "I do," said Frank, firmly.
"Well.