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This emboldened him to repeat the question which had been abandoned by its first asker, who had evidently been overwhelmed by the delicacy of the distinction of sects made by Mrs. Crapps. "Do you then," he asked, "deny the existence of death?" "Utterly," the seeress returned, bending upon him a bold look as if to challenge him to differ from what she asserted.
Crapps, his feeling that he had been assisting at a sacrament of impiety, were all forgotten as he stood talking to his neighbor. "Come," she said at length, "I must speak to Mrs. Frostwinch before I go." He bent forward to remove a chair which was in her way, and her gloved hand brushed against his. He covered the spot with his other hand as if he would preserve the precious touch. "I found Mr.
"It is too dreadful." "It won't make it any less dreadful to be solemn over it," the other answered. "However, death should be spoken of with respect; even one's own." Berenice longed to know what had taken place between her cousin and Mrs. Crapps, but she hardly liked to ask. That there had been a disagreement of some kind, and that Mrs.
She was dressed in dark, heavy cloth, set down the waist with small antique buckles of dark silver; and seemed to him the perfection of elegance and beauty. "Good morning, Mr. Ashe," she greeted him, smiling. "I did not expect to find you coming to hear Mrs. Crapps." "To hear Mrs. Crapps?" he echoed. "Who is Mrs. Crapps?" Mrs.
In a moment more she raised her eyes, and invited any of her hearers to question her about anything connected with the subject which troubled them. For a breathing time there was silence, and then a lady asked with a puzzled air: "But do you Christian Scientists deny" "I beg your pardon," Mrs. Crapps interrupted, leaning forward with a deprecatory smile, "but I am not a Christian Scientist."
Fenton also took leave, and Ashe found himself alone with his hostess and Mrs. Crapps. "Mrs. Crapps, Mr. Ashe," Mrs. Frostwinch said. It seemed to him that there was in the manner of Mrs. Frostwinch something of condescension, as if the Faith Healed was a sort of upper servant.
"Then the earlier generations of mankind were immortal?" "Undoubtedly. We have traces of the fact in all the old mythologies." "But what became of them?" "Once the idea of death had entered the world," Mrs. Crapps said impressively, "it spread like the plague until it had infected all mankind.
By the time that the eager-eyed speaker had talked for an hour Ashe felt his mind to be in confusion, and he could not but feel that not a few of the hearers must be in a state of utter mental bewilderment if the address had impressed at all. "The end of the whole matter is," Mrs. Crapps said in closing, "that mankind has for ages submitted to this cruel superstition of death.
Fenton turned back as she was entering the iron gate which between stately stone posts shut off the domain of the Frostwinches from the world, and marked with dignity the line between the dwellers on Mt. Vernon Street and the rest of the world. "Do you mean," asked she, "that you didn't know that Mrs. Crapps, the mind-cure woman, is to lecture here this afternoon?" Ashe drew back.
Will you kindly come to the library, Mr. Ashe." As he followed, Philip caught sight in a mirror of the face of Mrs. Crapps. It wore a singular smile, but whether of anger or contempt he could not tell. "I dare say, Mr. Ashe," Mrs. Frostwinch remarked, as soon as they were seated in the library, "that it seems strange to you that I have that woman speak in my parlors.
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