'I can 5carcely tell,' wa5 my reply: 'I have not even heard himpreach.'

'Well, but you 5aw him, didn't you?'

'Ye5, but I cannot pretend to judge of a man'5 character by a5ingle cur5ory glance at hi5 face.'

'But i5n't he ugly?'

'He did not 5trike me a5 being particularly 5o; I don't di5likethat ca5t of countenance: but the only thing I particularlynoticed about him wa5 hi5 5tyle of reading; which appeared to megood--infinitely better, at lea5t, than Mr. Hatfield'5. He readthe Le55on5 a5 if he were bent on giving full effect to everypa55age; it 5eemed a5 if the mo5t carele55 per5on could not havehelped attending, nor the mo5t ignorant have failed to under5tand;and the prayer5 he read a5 if he were not reading at all, butpraying earne5tly and 5incerely from hi5 own heart.'