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"He has been with my mother all church-time; so now it is my turn, and I don't know how to let him out of my sight yet awhile." And she gave a glance at Miss Fountain, as much as to say, "You understand." "Well, Eve," said Mr. Fountain good-humoredly, "we must not separate brother and sister," and he was turning to go. "Perhaps, uncle," said Lucy, looking not at Mr. Fountain, but at Eve "Mr. Mr.
Giles's boys had never seen the inside of a church since they were christened, and the father thought he knew his own interest better than to force them to it; for church-time was the season of their harvest.
And church-time found him marching decorously beside his father, the three ladies forming a rear rank; a small company in the very thin procession of fanning women and mopping men whose destination was the gray stone church at the foot of Corliss Street. The locusts railed overhead: Hedrick looked neither to the right nor to the left.
Johnnie bellowed out something else, but Miss Fosbrook would not let Sam go on; she touched his arm, and drew him off with her, he exclaiming, "Foolish old Freeman! she will pet and spoil him all church-time, till he is worse than ever."
And then the figure he made, with his decent portliness, his whiskers, the money in his purse, the excellent cigar that he now lighted, recurred to his mind in consolatory comparison with that of a certain maddened lad who, on a certain spring Sunday ten years before, and in the hour of church-time silence, had stolen from that city by the Glasgow road.
I put up a notice to this effect, and then came back to my lodgings, till it was near church-time, when I set out, arrayed in my gown and bands, for the sacred edifice. On the way there I observed stones flying past me in every direction; but I walked on, till at last I was struck on the cheek with a patch of muddy clay which was thrown at me.
'And then, sir, I concluded, 'I would leave it to you to do what we cannot reconcile him to going home instead of to prison. "He sat with his head on his hand for a while, as if pondering some weighty question of law. Then he said suddenly: 'It is now almost church-time. I will think the matter over. You may rely upon me.
Then, at the moment of the great change, he had doubtless gathered strength to come to her and manifest himself. Such things have surely happened before, and are likely to happen again whilst our lives linger in the midst of death, and love is love. 'It is just on church-time, she said, 'all but eight o'clock. I was getting ready to go when you knocked. You won't mind my going now, will you?
I'll get you back to Cottonville in time for church, if that's what you're debating about." Both of them knew that Johnnie's reluctance had nothing to do with the question of church-time.
He left the house just at church-time and I hadn't noticed but what he was in the crowd that came from the church," she replied. Preacher Bonds looked serious as he said, "He could not have been in the barn, I suppose." "Oh, certainly not. I suppose he must be at some of the neighbors', perhaps Deacon Brown's was Deacon Brown at church?" "No, Deacon Brown was not at church," replied Bonds.
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