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Of the three whites present, Parson Amen alone fully comprehended all that was said, he having qualified himself in this respect, to preach to the tribes of that people; though le Bourdon understood nearly all, and even the corporal comprehended a good deal.
Griffith to take her patient's physic herself, and any one that chose, to learn the lines that the Parson had set me. As we passed along we saw our master and his friend shooting in a field adjoining the road. We began to quake for fear, but he was too busily engaged with his sport to notice us; and, creeping along under the hedge, we passed on unnoticed.
The missionary coming on top of Trampas had been more than he could stand. But I did not know, and I spoke with innocent cheeriness. "Is the parson going to save us?" I asked; and I fairly jumped at his voice: "Don't talk so much!" he burst out. I had got the whole accumulation! "Who's been talking?" I in equal anger screeched back. "I'm not trying to save you. I didn't take your rope."
Firmly in his stirrups the parson planted his feet; and the heart within him was very proud. The borough town of Lansmere was situated in the county adjoining that which contained the village of Hazeldean.
"Yes, Walter, I have; you see I was not as prejudiced as you thought. I talked for an hour with Parson Jones, and he convinced me that it was nothing but a lot of rubbish and nonsense." "What does Parson Jones know about it?" "Why, Walter, Mr. Jones is considered the best educated man in our city." "Best educated in what?" "In every thing in general."
So I puts my arm round his old neck, and I sez, 'Bob, my dear, are you prepared to meet your Maker? 'Oh! I'm all right, he sez quite sensible; 'don't you bother your head about that, 'Don't you think you'd better let me send for the parson? I sez.
"So I put it to you, why not?" he continued, flushing as he came to the point and contemplated his prey. "You don't see yourself as a parson's wife, eh? You're not the cut. But for that matter I'm not the ordinary cut of parson. T'other side of the water we'd fly high.
"If they do, it will ruin everything. Boy, you must stop them. Deakin will help you. You must hold them back." I shook my head. "It's too late," I informed her. "They will not listen to the parson, or me; they are too afraid." "But they must be stopped!" she cried. "Only one man can stop them and that's Newman, himself," I replied. "What time have they set?" she asked, quickly.
The parson used to say, "I'm really afraid the child has no moral conscience she doesn't seem to know right from wrong." This troubled his religion, but it tickled his humour, and it did not disturb his love. "She's a perfect pagan God bless her innocent heart!" She had more than a child's genius for make-believe.
Cranston and other women came driving over in their ambulances, the generic term by which army carriages were known in the days when a provident Congress first began curtailing the transportation facilities of the line where, sous entendu, all great reformatory experiments were tried, the staff being, of course, beyond even congressional suspicion, and so it resulted that about eleven o'clock every fine day the biggest gathering of the people, red and white, in all the broad valley of the Chasing Water, as far east as its confluence with the shadowy Niobrara and thence to the shores of the Big Muddy, was that to be found about the rectangular space where the Parson held forth to his faithful squad.
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