He greeted Lord Ernest cheerily enough, nodded to me in a not unfriendly way, and at once broke into exhortation: "It's a very short life we live; man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Well for them that are the children of light--if seeing the light they sin not against it"; and so on with amazing volubility.
There are eighty-five of these Covenanters here.

They touch not nor have touched the accursed thing.

To them all parties and all governments are alike evil.

The Whigs persecuted the Solemn League and Covenant--so did the Tories.