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Rh And what said the neighbors to him?

He hath, since his going back, been held greatly in derision, and that among all sorts of people: some do mock and despise him, and scarce any will set him on work. He is now seven times worse than if he had never gone out of the city.

But why should they be set so against him, since they also despise the way that he forsook?

"Oh," they say, "hang him; he is a turncoat! he was not true to his profession!" I think God has stirred up even his enemies to hiss at him and laugh at him, because he hath forsaken the way.

Had you no talk with him before you came out?

I met him once in the streets, but he leered away on the other side, as one ashamed of what he had done; so I spake not to him.

Well, at my first setting out, I had hopes of that man, but now I fear he will perish in the overthrow of the city. For it has happened to him according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."

These are my fears of him too; but who can hinder that which will be?

"Well, neighbor Faithful," said Christian, "let us leave him, and talk of things that more immediately concern ourselves. Tell me