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He then tells of the protracted religious services held in the Cotton household every Saturday night, services so long that the Sabbath-day exercises must have seemed in comparison like a light interlude. After which he catechized his children and servants and then returned unto his study. The morning following, family-worship being ended, he retired into his study until the bell called him away.
She must adopt a son if she can: if she cannot, because of poverty, or for other reasons, the local authorities will provide a son for her, that is to say, a male heir to maintain the family-worship.
The servants entered the room with countenances full of the melancholy which they concluded, notwithstanding all evidence to the contrary, that their master and mistress must be experiencing: but, when service was over, they retired with the feeling that the family-worship had never been more gladsome. Mr Enderby was in the churchyard when the congregation poured out from the porch.
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