profane authors

[…] I am sure it is not my fault if I do not practise enough; for, of free will, I would do little else, only my father and tutor are angry sometimes, and only Miss Lucy there gives herself airs about my being busy, for all she can sit idle by a well-side the whole day, when she has a handsome young gentleman to prate with.

Good conduct will be rewarded and likewise poor conduct will be punished.

This gliding machinery, termed the glideosome...