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I distinctly recall the solemn tones in which, upon communion occasions, he lined out, in measured and mellow cadence, the good old hymn beginning: "'T was on that dark, that doleful night, When powers of earth and hell arose." Mr. Sawyer, too, the old-time singing-school teacher, has honored place in my memory.
Humphreys, went to singing-school and church with Julia in a matter-of-course way, treating her with attention, but taking care not to make himself too attentive. Except that Julia could not endure his smile which was, like some joint stock companies, strictly limited she liked him well enough.
"Partickerly the airs she put on over all us girls when she was running around to singing-school and church with that Second Lieutenant, who ain't got across the Ohio River yet, and I don't believe he intends to. Sol Pringle tells me all his letters to her are postmarked Jeffersonville."
It was her father who made the match; and Amelia had succumbed, not through the obedience claimed by parents of an elder day, but from hot jealousy and the pique inevitably born of it. Laurie Morse had kept the singing-school that winter.
"Rod wanted his supper early so that he could go off to singing-school, but I kept something warm for you, and I'll make you a fresh cup of tea." Ivory went into the little shed room off the kitchen, changed his muddy boots for slippers, and made himself generally tidy; then he came back to the living-room bringing a pine knot which he flung on the fire, waking it to a brilliant flame.
They harried his hitherto peaceful domains, smoked out his singing-school by stopping up the chimney, broke into the schoolhouse at night, in spite of its formidable fastenings of withe and window stakes, and turned everything topsy-turvy, so that the poor schoolmaster began to think all the witches in the country held their meetings there.
But, do you know, my mother went to singing-school, and Lizzie was looking that up in a book, the other day, to see what they did she wanted it for a party!" He laughed. "That is delicious!" he said. "See what I found to-day!" she added, drawing a small object from her pocket. "I hunted it up to show Miss Porter tonight. She was so interested when I told her about it."
This did not suit the "mittened" ones, and they determined to draw young Douglas into a controversy which should result in a fight, he, of course, to be the defeated party. The night chosen for the onslaught was the "singing-school night," and the time the homeward walk of Stephen from the house of the fair object of contention. The crowd met him at the corner store.
Paul's, in 1450, there were: The bishop, Four archdeacons, The treasurer, The precentor, The chancellor, Thirty greater canons, Twelve lesser canons, Fifty chaplains, and Thirty vicars. These were of the higher rank; there were innumerable others of lower rank, such as the master of the singing-school, the binder, and the translator.
The Testament lay open as she had left it, and for days she kept it open there, and did not dare read anything but these three verses, lest she should lose the rest for her soul that she found here. Humphreys was now in the last weeks of his singing-school.
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