He had pulled his pipe out of his mouth to say all this, and he now turned over on his other side and smoked again. Mrs. Pardiggle, who had been regarding him through her spectacles with a forcible composure, calculated, I could not help thinking, to increase his antagonism, pulled out a good book as if it were a constable's staff and took the whole family into custody. I mean into religious custody, of course; but she really did it as if she were an inexorable moral policeman carrying them all off to a station-house.

He had pulled his pipe out of his mouth to say all this, and he now turned over and smoked again. Mrs. Pardiggle pulled out a good book as if it were a constable's staff and she were an inexorable policeman carrying them all off to the station.
