One of his rules was to refuse to commence tolling the bell, until he saw Mrs. Willoughby and her daughter, within a reasonable distance of the place of worship; a rule that had brought about more than one lively discussion between himself and the levelling-minded, if not heavenly-minded Joel Strides.

Our Superior is too heavenly-minded to have much thought for earthly things, and so it goes.

She appeared to me the most heavenly-minded old lady I had ever seen; and I listened, with a species of awe, to the long stories which she loved so dearly to relate about everybody whom she visited.

Says Captain Martin, "Who could resist this beautiful, persuasive, and heavenly-minded woman?