"I never saw any one in use.

O, yes, Miss Gourlay has one." "Yes," replied the other, with a gloomy reflection, "I forgot; she is, in addition to her other accomplishments, a Bible reader.

Well, stay where you are; I shall get it myself." He accordingly rose and proceeded to Lucy's chamber, where, after having been admitted, he found the book he sought, and such was the absence of mind, occasioned by the apprehensions he felt, that he brought away the book, and forgot to lock the door.
"Now, sir," said the baronet, sternly, when he returned, "do you respect this book?
It is the Bible." "Why, yes, sir.

I respect every book that has readin' in it--printed readin'." "But this is the Bible, on which the Christian religion is founded." "Well, sir, I don't doubt that," replied the enlightened master of horse; "but I prefer the _Seven Champions of Christendom_, or the _History of Valentine and Orson_, or _Fortunatus's Purse_." "You don't relish the Bible, then ?" "I don't know, sir; I never read a line of it--although I heard a great deal about! it.

Isn't that the book the parsons preach I from ?" "It is," replied the baronet, in his deep voice.