No, I can't do it--nor I won't; I like pluck, and this priest has shown it.

Had he taken to his heels, by -- -, he would have had half a dozen bullets in his rear; but, as I said, I like pluck, and on that account we shall pass him by this time.

To the right about.

As to the clerk, by -- -, he has shown pluck too, but be hanged to him, what do we care about him ?" We must say a word or two here about Smellpriest.

He was, in the true sense of the word, a priest-hunter; but yet, with all his bigotry, he was a brave man, and could appreciate courage wherever he found it.
The reader already knows that his range of persecution was by no means either so wide or so comprehensive as that of the coward Whitecraft.
He was a dashing, outspoken fellow, with an equal portion of boisterous folly and mischief; whereas Whitecraft was a perfect snake--treacherous, cruel, persevering in his enmity, and unrelenting in his vengeance.