I will rid the hundred of thee, with God's blessing!--nay, the whole shire. We will have none such in our county; we justices are agreed upon it, and we will keep our word now and forevermore. Woe betide any that resembles thee in any part of him!" Whereunto Sir Silas added, - "We will dog him, and worry him, and haunt him, and bedevil him; and if ever he hear a comfortable word, it shall be in a language very different from his own." "As different as thine is from a Christian's," said the youth. "Boy! thou art slow of apprehension," said Sir Thomas, with much gravity; and taking up the cue, did rejoin, - "Master Silas would impress upon thy ductile and tender mind the danger of evil doing