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You love music, and I have been taught to play and sing as well as some minstrels. You love to be charitable, I have enough to give, and enough to keep, as large a daily alms as a deacon gives would never be missed by me. Your father gets old for daily toil; he would live with us, as I should truly hold him for my father also.
Getting home of a Friday only, I was compelled to devote Saturday to preparations for the Sabbath; and Sabbath-night, as I understand it, he departed." "We are all in the hands of Divine Providence," said the deacon, with a sober mien, "and it is our duty to submit.
I say we're too enlightened for that. 'Twas good enough's long's we didn't think, but naow but naow a new loominary has arisen on the horizon!" "Meanin' you?" said the Deacon.
Finding a wicker settee among some palms at one side of the orchestra, Deacon sat drinking in the scene. It was not until the hour set for the return had almost arrived that Deacon saw Jane Bostwick, and then his attention was directed to her by her appearance with Junior Doane in one of the open French windows at his right.
''Twill be a black day for auld Scotland when she ceases to believe in the muckle Deil, commented 'the Meenister' of the Tron Kirk, when I had explained to him my troubles and sought his 'ghostly counsel and advice, as the English service has it, 'to the quieting of my conscience, and avoiding of all scruple and doubtfulness. My father had been English, but my mother was Scotch, and she had sent me to my uncle, Deacon Abercrombie, to be entered as apprentice to his craft of the goldsmiths.
And I'm a prudent man, as my father the deacon was before me; but rather than an honest civil gentleman, that understands business, and is willing to do justice to all men, should lie by the heels this gate, unable to help himsell or onybody else why, conscience, man!
I wuz almost by the side of myself with my rapt emotions when I hearn a voice that recalled me to myself "Drusilla, I'm clean beat out." "Are you, Deacon Sypher? Wall, it is because you are so smart, and see so much." Truly, thinkses I, it don't take much smartness to see much in this place.
"This little incident is true, and while it does not contain any special moral, it goes to show that an honest man gathers no moss, and also explains a large circular hole, and the tin patch over it, which may still be seen in the pew where Deacon Decker used to sit."
But that he is vigorously laboring with himself to control his temper is very evident, and it is equally evident, so at least the Deacon says, that he is gaining a victory in this life-campaign. "It is very clear," said I to myself, as I walked along, "that there are some good points in Mr. Gear's character.
The name of Henry Roland, the sexton, was finally reported unfavorably, three of the committee voting against it, Deacon Stearns at last voting with the minister to present the sexton's name with the others. "Now, brethren," said Philip, with a sad smile, as they rose to go, "you know I have always been very frank in all our relations together.
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