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Suddenly," continued the Vicar, after suppressing his emotion, "without any apparent cause, the man became a Sabbath-breaker, and absented himself from church." This evidence rather puzzled me, for I could not understand its purport. Maule in the meantime was watching it with the keenest interest and no little curiosity.
"It is not right to walk out on the Sabbath-day, except to go to church or chapel." "Who told you so?" "The law of God, which says you shall keep holy the Sabbath-day." "I am not keeping it unholy." "You are walking about, and in Wales when we see a person walking idly about, on the Sabbath-day, we are in the habit of saying, Sabbath-breaker, where are you going?"
By the way the parson was speaking to me again yesterday about your continued absence from church. It really is disgraceful; you are a most confirmed Sabbath-breaker. And now you mustn't waste my time here any longer. Go and look after your affairs. Stop a minute, would you like a glass of port?"
But her face betrayed no consciousness, except of their present disappointment. "There's an excursion boat coming round the Point," he said, pointing to the black smoke trail of a steamer at the entrance of a loch, "and it will be returning to St. Kentigern shortly. If you like, we'll pull over and put you aboard." "Eh! but it's the Sabbath-breaker!" said the old man harshly.
She was a young lady of some two or three and twenty years of age, and though a young person of her sex walking bare-headed in a garden, of a Sunday morning in spring-time, can, in the nature of things, never be a displeasing object, you would not have pronounced this innocent Sabbath-breaker especially pretty.
He wasna like his father nae profane company-keeper nae swearer nae drinker nae frequenter of play-house, or music-house, or dancing-house nae Sabbath-breaker nae imposer of aiths, or bonds, or denier of liberty to the flock. He clave to the warld, and the warld's gear, a wee ower muckle, but then there was some breathing of a gale upon his spirit," etc. etc.
Secretary' the President turned to the poor Reverend-of-all-work 'you need not record this verbal discussion in the minutes. 'By request, said the stylist, reviving. 'But what's the use of the resolution if you don't mention the member's name? suddenly inquired Ephraim Mendel, stretching his long, languid limbs. 'But there's only one Sabbath-breaker, replied the Parnass.
'But you keep your shop open! he cried at last. 'That would be still another point of clashing, admitted Simeon Samuels blandly. 'Altogether, you will see the inadvisability of my accepting office. 'Office! echoed Barzinsky, meeting the other's ironic fence with crude thwacks. 'Do you think a God-fearing congregation would offer office to a Sabbath-breaker?
'Against the Sabbath-breaker, corrected the Parnass. 'You didn't single him out, added Barzinsky; 'you didn't even make it clear that Joseph wasn't myself. 'I said Joseph was a goodly person and well-favoured, retorted the goaded minister. The Parnass took snuff, and his sneeze sounded like a guffaw. 'Well, well, he said more kindly, 'you must try again to-morrow.
My lord, he has, as he saith, been a great man indeed, and greater in wickedness than by pedigree more than a thousandfold. Clerk. But what do you know of his particular actions, and especially with reference to his indictment? Know. I know him to be a swearer, a liar, a Sabbath-breaker; I know him to be a fornicator and an unclean person; I know him to be guilty of abundance of evils.
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