Judges! I know but one Judge, and He is there; and He has said that those whom He has joined together, man shall not put asunder.
Pure! pure! No one should praise herself, but as a woman I do know that I am pure.' Then the mother's heart yearned greatly towards her daughter; and yet she was no whit changed.

She knew nothing of phrases of logic, but she felt that Hester had begged the whole question.

Those whom God had joined together! True, true! If only one could know whether in this or the other case God had joined the couple.

As Hester argued the matter, no woman should be taken from the man she had married, though he might have a dozen other wives all living.

And she spoke of purity as though it were a virtue which could be created and consecrated simply by the action of her own heart, as though nothing outside,--no ceremony, no ordinance,--could affect it.