But Jack is hanged, and my lord is not.

Is that right?
My wife, Mary Fulcher--I beg her pardon, Mary Dale--who is a Methodist, and has heard the mighty preacher, Peter Williams, says some people are preserved from hanging by the grace of God.

With her I differs, and says it is from want of courage.

This Whitefeather, with one particle of Jack's courage, and with one tithe of his good qualities, would have been hanged long ago, for he has ten times Jack's malignity.

Jack was hanged because, along with his bad qualities, he had courage and generosity; this fellow is not, because with all Jack's bad qualities, and many more, amongst which is cunning, he has neither courage nor generosity.