"And now that I have relieved my conscience by protesting against your course, I am satisfied you should go on in your own way just the same." "And yet you feel no conscientious scruples against abducting the minister," rejoined Raymond laughing; "a thing which I am rather loath to do." "I see," replied Joseph, also laughing.

"I scruple at taking mustard, and you at cayenne pepper.

It is a matter of mental organization probably." "Yes--and if a few or many doses of mustard will prevent my being arrested as a witch, which would put it entirely out of my power to aid Dulcibel in her affliction--and perhaps turn some of the "afflicted" girls over to her side, in case she has to stand a trial for her life--I shall certainly swallow them with as much grace as if they were so many spoonfuls of honey.

There is a time to be over-scrupulous, friend Joseph, but not when my beloved one is in the cage of the tigers.

Yes, I shall not hesitate to meet craft with craft." And Mistress Putnam, sweet, good woman as she was, nodded her head, woman-like, approvingly, carried away perhaps by the young man's earnestness, and by the strength of his love..