I'm not sure that his church people won't tar and feather him.

Marrying a low-down Come-Outer hussy! As if there wa'n't decent girls of good families he might have had! But losing this church won't be the only thing that'll happen to him.

The committee'll see that he doesn't get another one.

I'll use my influence and have him thrown out of the Regular ministry.

Think I can't?
What sort of yarns do you suppose will be told about him and her, meeting the way they did?
Won't the county papers print some fine tales?
Won't the Boston ones enjoy such a scandal?
I tell you, Eben Hammond, that young chap's name will be dragged so deep in the mud it'll never get clean again." He stopped for breath.