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He had the mobile, smiling mouth of the picture, but his chin was deeper and squarer, dented with a dimple which, combined with a certain occasional whimsicality of opinion and glance, had caused Elder Trewin some qualms of doubt regarding the fitness of this young man for his high and holy vocation. The Rev.
If a northeast rainstorm doesn't set in before next Sunday, Mr. Trewin will not have his sermon. I shall take as my text instead, 'The flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds has come."
All things considered, Elder Trewin decided to overlook the dimple. There was sure to be some drawback in every minister.
Captain Anthony had never warned him by so much as a hint that Lynde was not free to be won. It had all probably seemed a good joke to him. Alan thought the furtive amusement he had so often detected in the Captain's eyes was explained now. He found Elder Trewin in his study when he got home.
As soon as they could they slipped out of the room and made their way into the garden. "We shall have to tell now," said Mollie. "Where did you put it?" "I threw it behind the laurel-bush," said Geoffrey. "I suppose I had better get it." He ran to the laurel-bush and Mollie followed. "Mary Selina Trewin," said Geoffrey, "it isn't there."
"Too sure," said Alan's white lips. The autumn dragged away. Alan found out how much a man may suffer and yet go on living and working. As for that, his work was all that made life possible for him now and he flung himself into it with feverish energy, growing so thin and hollow-eyed over it that even Elder Trewin remonstrated and suggested a vacation a suggestion at which Alan merely smiled.
Jabez Strong had never indulged in dimples or jokes; but then, as Elder Trewin, being a just man, had to admit, the Rev. Jabez Strong had preached many a time and oft to more empty pews than full ones, while now the church was crowded to its utmost capacity on Sundays and people came to hear Mr. Douglas who had not darkened a church door for years.
"I don't think I should show it to anyone," said Geoffrey, and then he began to think. Mollie was thinking too. "Mary Selina Trewin," said Geoffrey solemnly. Mollie jumped. When her Mother called her Mary Selina she knew something serious was coming. "Mary Selina Trewin," said Geoffrey, "who has seen that doll? Nobody. Who saw the postman bring it? Nobody. Who knows it is here? Nobody."
A man does not mind a pin-prick when a limb is being wrenched away. "I can promise you that my objectionable calls at Four Winds will cease," he said sarcastically, when the Elder had finished. Elder Trewin got himself away, feeling snubbed but relieved. "Took it purty quiet," he reflected. "Don't believe there was much in the yarns after all.
Alan hated doctrines "the soul's staylaces," he called them but Elder Trewin was a man to be reckoned with and Alan preached an occasional sermon to please him. "It's no use," he said wearily. "I could have written a sermon in keeping with that text in November or midwinter, but now, when the whole world is reawakening in a miracle of beauty and love, I can't do it.
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