"0h, but, Margery," exclaimed Jane Winslow, "we have a 'better country' thanold England, where the saints and angels are keeping Christmas; weconfess that we are strangers and pilgrims on earth."

And Rose Standish immediately added the familiar quotation from theGeneva Bible:

"For they that say such skinnygs declare plainly that they seek a country.For if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came outthey had leisure to have returned. But now they desire a better--that is,an heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called theirGod."