"I should like to see the clergyman who would attempt it.

These people were heathen, and richly deserved their fate.

Richly!" Momma looked at her husband's Aunt Caroline with indignant scorn.

"Do you really think so ?" she asked, but we could all see that her words were a very inadequate expression for her emotions.

Mrs.Portheris drew all the guns of her orthodoxy into line for battle.