“Now what should that bode?” muttered Waghorn. “Where hath he been? And whither doth he ride now? I’ll light my lantern when I reach home, and see if the hoof-prints stop at the Vicarage.”


CHAPTER XLIII.

“But true religion, sprung from God above,

Is like her fountain, full of charity,

Embracing all things with a tender love!

Full of goodwill and meek expectancy;

Full of true justice and sure verity,

In heart and voice free, large, even infinite;