BETTY. Yet that be not everything [checks off another finger]—and Jonas Appleby——
COTTON. He hath an eye to worldly goods——
BETTY. [Quickly.] Especially the larder. To marry him would be an everlasting round between the tankard and the kettle. [Checks him off.] Nay, let me look yet farther—James Endicott. [Checking.]
COTTON. Aye, there might be a lad for thee; birth, breeding, a well-favored countenance, and most agreeable.
BETTY. Yea, most agreeable—unto himself. 'Twere a pity to disturb such unanimity. Therefore, let us pass on. Take Charles Manning, an you please——
COTTON. It pleaseth me not! I know the ilk; his father before him a devoted servant of the devil and King Charles. With others of his kind he hath brought dissension among the young men of Harvard, many of whom are dedicated to the service of the Lord, with his wicked apparel and ungodly fashion of wearing long hair after the manner of Russians and barbarous Indians. Many there be with him brought up in such pride as doth in no ways become the service of the Lord. The devil himself hath laid hold on our young men, so that they do evaporate senseless, useless, noisy impertinency wherever they may be; and now it has e'en got out in the pulpits of the land, to the great grief and fear of many godly hearts.
[He starts to his feet and paces the floor.
BETTY. [Standing upright.] But Charles——
COTTON. [Interrupting.] Mention not that scapegrace in my hearing.
BETTY. [Still persisting.] But, father, truly thou knowest not——