you see, Dolly, very much to the _poor_. If _they_ understand me, I am
pretty sure everyone else must; and I think that my simple style goes
more home to both feelings and conscience--"

"You ought to have told me of his crying before. You _are_ so
eloquent," exclaimed Dolly Jenner. "No one preaches like my man. I
have never heard such sermons."

Not many, we may be sure; for the good lady had not heard more than
six from any other divine for the last twenty years.

The personages of Golden Friars talked Toby Crooke over on his return.
Doctor Lincote said:

"He must have led a hard life; he had _dried in_ so, and got a good
deal of hard muscle; and he rather fancied he had been soldiering--he
stood like a soldier; and the mark over his right eye looked like a
gunshot."

People might wonder how he could have survived a gunshot over the eye;
but was not Lincote a doctor--and an army doctor to boot--when he was
young; and who, in Golden Friars, could dispute with him on points of
surgery? And I believe the truth is, that this mark had been really
made by a pistol bullet.

Mr. Jarlcot, the attorney, would "go bail" he had picked up some sense
in his travels; and honest Turnbull, the host of the George and
Dragon, said heartily:

"We must look out something for him to put his hand to. _Now's_ the