Mistress Lambert is your aunt ?" he added superciliously, "is she not ?" "That is nothing to thee," muttered the other, "if she be my aunt or no, as far as I can see." "Surely not.

I asked in a spirit of polite inquiry." But apparently this subject was one which had more than any other the power to rouse the blacksmith's savage temper.

He fought with it for a moment or two, for anger is the Lord's, and strict Quaker discipline forbade such unseemly wrangling.

But Adam was a man of violent temperament which his strict religious training had not altogether succeeded in holding in check: the sneers of the foreign prince, his calm, supercilious attitude, broke the curb which religion had set upon his passion.
"Aye! thou art mighty polite to me, my fine gentleman," he said vehemently.

"Thou knowest what I think of thy lazy foreign ways ...