If they give place to the devil in their sheepfolds, sure he'll come in and lodge there.

Look, sir, there's a sight in a gospel land!" And, indeed, the sight was curious enough.

For Parsons was kneeling by the side of the dying man, listening earnestly to the confession which the man sobbed out in his gibberish, between the spasms of his wounded chest.

Now and then Parsons shook his head; and when Eustace returned with the holy wafer, and the oil for extreme unction, he asked him, in a low voice, "Ballard, interpret for me." And Eustace knelt down on the other side of the sufferer, and interpreted his thieves' dialect into Latin; and the dying man held a hand of each, and turned first to one and then to the other stupid eyes,--not without affection, though, and gratitude.
"I can't stand this mummery any longer," said Yeo.

"Here's a soul perishing before my eyes, and it's on my conscience to speak a word in season." "Silence!" whispered Amyas, holding him back by the arm; "he knows them, and he don't know you; they are the first who ever spoke to him as if he had a soul to be saved, and first come, first served; you can do no good.