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We must have the azaleas out to-morrow and thoroughly cleansed, they are devoured by insects; the tame rook has flown away; mother lost her prayer-book coming from church, she thinks it was stolen.
When she reached the end, she begged him to offer a short prayer with her, that God might help her to appear with such becoming contrition before her judges as should atone for her scandalous effrontery. She then took up her cloak, a prayer-book which Father Chavigny had left with her, and followed the concierge, who led her to the torture chamber, where her sentence was to be read.
He demanded our attention, all kneeling in both cabins, while the good, simple-minded old man read some of the collects, the Lord's Prayer, and concluded with the thanksgiving for "a safe return from sea"! He would have given us the marriage ceremony itself, before he would have gone out of the prayer-book for any united worship whatever.
It was Miss Norvell who first broke the constraint. "You are evidently well acquainted with the intricacies of the prayer-book," she remarked quietly, "and hence I venture to inquire if you are a churchman." "Not exactly, although my parents are both communicants, and I was brought up to attend service." "Do you know, I am glad even of that?
He sha'n't be growling out hypocritical responses from my poor grandmother's prayer-book." So the squire and his demon stayed at home.
In her eighth year she was able to follow the church-service in the prayer-book, and make out the hymns, but that was all. Sunday-school was held in the church, and was attended by all the unmarried parishioners. Mildred taught some of the tiny mites, and Beth was put into her class at first; but Beth had no respect for Mildred, and had consequently to be removed.
The prayer-book says so, and I thought it meant it. By the time I'm grown I guess I'll find a lot of things are said and not meant. Maybe when I find out I will be all the gladder to come back to Yorkburg, where people don't seem to know much about these new-fashioned things.
And she took from her pocket a tiny prayer-book, and, holding it to the light, read the eighteenth psalm it was a particularly good one, that never failed her when she felt low she used no glasses, and up to the present had avoided any line between the brows, knowing it was her duty to remain as nice as she could to look at, so as not to spoil the pleasure of people round about her.
Some looked at her and looked again, and did not know her, but most of those she remembered had a nod, a smile, or a kind word for her, and she smiled on all. They all seemed like friends. Now Miss Wort rushed out of her gate and rushed back, something necessary forgotten gloves or prayer-book probably.
In his pockets were an Agnus Dei, a taper of green wax, two bits of hareskin, two dried toads which were supposed to be sorcerer's charms a crucifix, a Jesuit catechism, a prayer-book, a pocket-book containing two Spanish bills of exchange one for two thousand, and one for eight hundred and seventy-seven crowns and a set of writing tablets.
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