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That anyone had seen her meet the man by the light of the summer's moon had never entered Rebecca's head for one moment. "And I don't steal from the minister's house, nuther," assured Tess, with a smile. "I brings ye some berries to-morry, and gives them to ye. And ye can keep the Dominie's money for a rag of a ribbon to light the coachman's eyes with."
The farm of Little Tilly lay so close to the dominie's house that from one window he could see through a telescope whether the farmer was going to church, owing to Little Tilly's habit of never shaving except with that intention, and of always doing it at a looking-glass which he hung on a nail in his door.
The squatter instinctively shifted her position toward the Dominie's pew. Teola Graves was standing up, tall and pale, and was looking directly at the minister. "Father," she cried, "Father, if you don't take the baby and baptize him in the name of the Saviour, you will consign to everlasting darkness " She lost her breath, caught it again, and finished, "your own flesh and blood.
And he threw up his arms, rested his head on the Dominie's shoulder and wept like a child. "No, mine Tite he ton't comes home no more," he sobbed.
Bill calmly took his seat on the left side of the room; crossed his legs, placed his fingers about the white wart, and then sat looking thoughtfully out of the window into the lighted street. For the first time in many months Bill Hopkins was in his chair at the weekly prayer meeting. His one idea in being present was to witness the Dominie's success in keeping the women in their places.
As I pulled up the river something within my breast told me that the Dominie's prophecy would turn out correct, and that I should one day repent of my having refused the advances of Mr Drummond nay, I did not exactly know whether I did not, even at that moment, very much doubt the wisdom of my asserting my independence.
"He says Am an' Lize come away f'm the dominie's putty down in the mouth, but 'fore long Amri braced up an' allowed that if he had half a dollar he'd try the squire in the mornin', an' Dick let him have it. I says to Dick, 'You're out fifty cents on that deal, an' he says, slappin' his leg, 'I don't give a dum, he says; 'I wouldn't 'a' missed it fer double the money."
All the other pupils knew that a change for the worse had come over the dominie's temper. They saw him punish Tommy frequently without perceptible cause, and that he was still unsatisfied when the punishment was over. This apparently was because Tommy gave him a look before returning to his seat.
'God bless him for it! said Bertram, shaking the Dominie's hand; he deserves the love with which I have always regarded even that dim and imperfect shadow of his memory which my childhood retained. 'And God bless you both, my dear children! said Sampson; 'if it had not been for your sake I would have been contented had Heaven's pleasure so been to lay my head upon the turf beside my patron.
"Nay," replied the Dominie, "there's an old adage which saith, `As the old cock crows, so doth the young. Wherefore didst thou set him the example?" "Very true, old gentleman, and I axes your pardon, and here's my hand upon it." "And so do I, sir, and here's my hand upon it," said young Tom, extending his hand on the Dominie's other side.
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