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When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its comer-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob a coward in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it.
On further reflection, she felt convinced that this incident occurred in the second year of her nephew's age, for she remembered being obliged to use "a deal of coaxing" to make him part with the money he was to lay on the comer-stone. About the same time, when she was sitting near him one day, listening to his prattle, her attention was drawn to his repeated and formidable hammering.
So she began to go about with miscellaneous escorts, to play the combined parts of frisky matron and society beauty an intoxicating experience; while the supporter of that proud position played the humble role of chief comer-stone, unseen and unconsidered in the basement of the fabric. One day, Guthrie Carey, after several voyages to other ports, appeared again in Melbourne.
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