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Up, and meeting Tom Willson he asked my pardon again, which I easily did give him, telling him only that it was well I was not a woman with child, for it might have made me miscarry. With Sir J. Minnes to church, where an indifferent good sermon. Here I saw Mrs. Becky Allen, who hath been married, and is this day churched, after her bearing a child.
Come along, he says, 'Whosoever will be saved an' the sooner 'tis over, the sooner you gets home to dinner. A fine talk there was! Squire, he's just such another. Funny things he've a-done. Married a poor soul from Roseland way a Miss Trevanion quite a bettermost lady. When Miss Susannah was born that's Miss Honoria's mother she went to be churched.
She was the loveliest babe that eye could rest on, and she was christened with great pomp. And on Saint Edward's Day, when the Lady Queen was purified" namely, churched "there was such a feast as I never saw again while I dwelt with her.
Only the dying were permitted to communicate, but their corpses were laid in the ground with maimed rites; infants were baptized, but their mothers were churched only in the churchyard, where on Sunday a sermon was preached, and on Good Friday the cross was carried out and exposed for the veneration of the people.
'You can't expect to shake off two fevers in no time. Now all the anxiety is over, you will brighten like this house. 'But tell me, what is thought of Amabel? Is she as well as she ought to be? 'Yes, quite, they say has recovered her strength very fast, and is in just the right spirits. She was churched yesterday, and was not the worse for it.
The minister heard it, and everybody looked at Pa, too, and Pa turned red, and the music box kept up, 'She's a Daisy, and the minister looked mad and said 'Amen, and the people began to put on their coats, and the minister told the deacon to hunt up the source of that worldly music, and they took Pa into the room back of the pulpit and searched him, and Ma says Pa will have to be churched.
The churched should lead in providing for the unchurched, and the overchurched might spare out of their abundance of workers and equipment some of the resources that are needed. The first concern of all the churches should be to reach the unchurched and to make church friends of the church-haters.
Decent burial was what Lisbeth had been thinking of for herself through years of thrift, with an indistinct expectation that she should know when she was being carried to the churchyard, followed by her husband and her sons; and now she felt as if the greatest work of her life were to be done in seeing that Thias was buried decently before her under the white thorn, where once, in a dream, she had thought she lay in the coffin, yet all the while saw the sunshine above and smelt the white blossoms that were so thick upon the thorn the Sunday she went to be churched after Adam was born.
"Not?" said the Pedler, "so much the better; marriage ain't love, no, nor love ain't marriage I'm a married cove myself, so I know what I'm a-sayin'; if folk do talk, an' shake their 'eads over ye w'y, let 'em, only don't don't go a-spilin' things by gettin' 'churched. You're a woman, but you're a fine un a dasher, by Goles, nice an' straight-backed, an' round, an' plump if I was this 'ere cove, now, I know what "
She had made her début seven years before, and was a singer of dramatic fire and vocal splendour, we are told. Her enthusiasm for Verdi's work not only fastened the claim of operatic art upon him, but won his interest in her charms also, and Verdi and she were soon joined in an alliance, which after some years was legalised and churched.
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