Moreover, she was assured that none of the members of the house-party would misunderstand her motives; people were so much less censorious in the country; there was something in the pastoral purity of Nature, seen face to face, which brought out one's noblest instincts, and put an end to all horrid gossip and scandal-mongering.

Equally censorious of these neglectful masters was Reverend Thomas Bacon, the rector of the Parish Church in Talbot County, Maryland.

And woe betide us if we are heretic, and the patient does not recover so quickly as we could wish (if he does, we shall be suspected of having surreptitiously called the orthodox nostrums to our aid, but that by the way), so that it behoves us to give the critical and censorious as little room for their strictures as possible.

This is all I can extort from her; but she is very hard to please, very censorious by nature, so don't be entirely discouraged.

Indeed, Captain,indeed, Ladies, I have told you great part of my story!And what I told you of my offence was the truth:what I concealed of my story was only what I apprehended would, if known, cause this dear creature to be thought more censorious than charitable.