of life, or death, or eternity." 

Well, I see my talk was no use.  I see she'd have him, chin or no chin.  If
I could have taken her up in my arms, and run away with her then and
there, how much misery I could have saved her from! But I couldn't: I had
the rheumatiz.  And I had to give up, and go home disappointed, but
carryin' this thought home with me on my tower,--that I had done my duty
by our sweet Cicely, and could do no more. 

As I said, he promised firm to give up drinking.  But, good land! what
could you expect from that chin? That chin couldn't stand temptation if it
came in his way.  At the same time, his love for Cicely was such, and his
good heart and his natural gentlemanly intuitions was such, that, if he
could have been kep' out of the way of temptation, he would have been all
right. 

If there hadn't been drinking-saloons right in front of that chin, if it
could have walked along the road without runnin' right into 'em, it would
have got along.  That chin, and them waverin'-lookin', amiable lips,
wouldn't have stirred a step out of their ways to get ruined and