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What's it sinnify about her being a Methody? It 'ud happen wear out on her wi' marryin'." Adam threw himself back in his chair and looked at his mother. He understood now what her talk had been aiming at, and tried to chase away the notion from her mind.
But instead o' that I shouts out at the top o' my voice though I can't tell what made me do it 'Shut up, all on you! Shut up, Henry Blain! Shut up, John Scarsbrick! Shut up, Robert Dellanow I'm tired o' the lot on you! That's what made me give up bein' a Methody. I began to see from that day that when things begins to open out you've got to shut up."
Old Jonas Evans, the Methody local preacher, was aside me, a-prayin' like a saint and a- fightin' like a lion. 'The Lord ha' mercy on his soul, I heared him say as he knocked a feller over. Well, he helped me out o' the fight as tender as a woman, and then went at it again as fierce as ever."
Of all men in the world he most admired the Cure, for his utter truth and nobility; but he could not help smiling at his enthusiasm his dear Cure turned evangelist like any "Methody"! and at the appeal of the Notary on the ground of knowledge of the world.
Dick stared as at the last thing he had expected. He shook his head. "Too thin," he said. "I've seen Tenney and I've heard him spoken of. He's a psalm-singing Methody, or something of that sort. Why, I met him one day, Jerry and I, and he stared at me as if he wanted to know me again.
No, Gretchen, I am willing you should play on the violin, though some of the Methody do not approve of that; and that you should finger the musical glasses in the evening they have a religious sound and soothe me, like; but the reading of poetry and novels I never did countenance, except Methody hymns and the 'Fool of Quality, and as for the writing of poetry, it is a Boston notion and an ornary habit.
I have a lively mind, and know how to use words when I am opposed. Well, one day when husband and I had been havin' words, which we shouldn't, seein' we are Methody, Gretchen began to cry, and went and got her violin, and began to play just like a bird.
I mean to take steps immediately to remedy all that." "A bit of a Methody chapel, that's all," said the opposition shopkeeper; "and the schoolroom, as Mr Wentworth " "Yes, I have heard of that," said the Rector, blandly; somebody had advised Mr Morgan to change his tactics, and this was the first evidence of the new policy "I hear you have been doing what little you could to mend matters.
"Damn it!" "They followed you?" I asked. "No, they didn't, and I wish they had." "Then what on earth has happened?" "What has happened?" Having no hair of his own to speak of, Billy reached forward and ran his fingers through his horse's mane. "I've engaged to get married. That's what has happened." "Good Lord!" "To a female Methody, in a Quaker bonnet.
But one Sunday afternoon early in November, Philip came up before the time at which he usually paid his visits. He looked grave and pale; and his aunt began, 'Why, lad! what's been ado? Thou'rt looking as peaked and pined as a Methody preacher after a love-feast, when he's talked hisself to Death's door.
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