You remember one evening not long ago when Ellen said that he objected to the preacher's coming to pray for Mrs.Colton.This was enough to stamp him a brute.

Give that sort of a man the nerve and he won't stop short of any cruelty or any crime." "Are you going to tell me something or do you simply intend to preach ?" Witherspoon asked.

His voice had returned.
"Father, he's telling you as fast as he can." "And I must tell it my own way," Henry said.

"That same evening I learned the name of the doctor--the great specialist employed by Brooks to treat the old lady.

But I inquired about him and found that he was simply a cheap quack.