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Updated: June 12, 2025
"What makes you want to be a minister?" she asked him. "I'd rather you kept a store. There's lots more money in it." "I don't see what difference it is going to make to you?" Scott answered rather cavalierly. Catie's reply was matter-of-fact, regardless of the sentimental nature of its substance. "Don't be stupid, Scott.
Already, for better or for worse, Catie's influence upon him was a strong one; stronger, Mrs. Brenton admitted to herself with a woful little sigh, than that of his own mother, despite the ill-concealed anxiety and the doting love that only a mother can give, and then only to an only son. Between the two of them, herself and Catie, Catie's will was the stronger law.
He could afford to yield the minor point concerning manners, when he stood so firmly entrenched upon that other point which concerned the ministry. "Of course," he conceded guardedly; "I know I was beastly when I hit a girl." "Yes." Catie's accent was uncompromising. "It was a disgrace to you. I wonder you can look me in the face.
Brenton's own experience had taught her that acquaintance should come before one's marriage, not wait till after. All in all, the more she thought about it, Mrs. Brenton favoured Catie's somewhat premature announcement of her plans. Despite his heritage of sturdy parson blood, Mrs.
Catie's expressed regrets were wholly perfunctory, whenever Mrs. Brenton confessed that she was tired and needed to lie down. For Mrs. Brenton also had come to Scott's commencement which, to her mind, was the crowning event of her own lifetime.
With the constant and unwavering blows of a carpenter pounding a nail into an oaken plank, she pounded into Catie's mind the undeniable truths that Scott's ancestry alone was enough to fit him for the ministry; that the ministry, granted the sincerity of its orthodox convictions, may be the highest field of labour offered to any man.
When they were held apart, they spent their time planning up new things to do together, once the parental ban was off their intercourse. When they were together, it was Scott who supplied the imagination for the pair of them. Catie's share lay in the crafty outworking of the plan.
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