The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.

(...) he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still.

What woman, indeed, among the most faithful adherents of the truth, believes the promises and threats of the Word in the sense in which she believes in her own children, or would not throw her theology to the wind if weighed against their happiness?