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"Jim Treadwell broke his neck out of a waggon," responded Mrs. Starling. "Ah, well! there ain't no security, no place; but don't it strike you, now, Mis' Starling, that a minister had ought to set an example of steady goin', and not turn the heads of the young men, and young women, with his capers?" "He is a young man himself, Mrs. Flandin," Diana was bold to say.
And I don't want a man more eloquent than he is, for my preachin'." "It ain't movin' preachin'," said Mrs. Flandin. "It moves the folks," said Mrs. Carpenter. "I don't know what you'd hev', Mis' Flandin; there's Liz Delamater, and Florry Mason, jined the church lately; and old Lupton; and my Jim," she added with softened voice; "and there's several more serious."
At Khorsabad, MM. Botta and Flandin found paint on the fringes of draperies, on fillets, on the mitre of the king, on the flowers carried by the winged figures, on bows and spearshafts, on the harness of the horses, on the chariots, on the sandals, on the birds, and sometimes on the trees. The torches used to fire cities, and the flames of the cities themselves, were invariably colored red.
"Her place was there," said the minister, who followed Diana in. "Now, dominie," said Mrs. Flandin, "you say that jes' 'cause she's your wife. Hain't her place been empty all these months? Where is a wife's place? I should like to hear you say." "Don't you think it is where her husband wants her to be?" "And you wanted her to be away from you down there? Do you mean that?"
I've something else to do in life." "Well, but there's no harm in being in the fashion, Mis' Flandin," said Miss Gunn. "The minister said he thought there warn't." "The minister had better take care of himself," Mrs. Flandin retorted. Whereupon they all opened upon her.
No, Diana must marry a rich young farmer; Will Flandin would just do; a man who would not dislike or be anywise averse to receive such a mother-in-law into his house, but reckon it an added advantage. Then her home would be secure, and her continued rule; and ruling was as necessary to Mrs. Starling as eating.
How did you all like his sermon last Sabbath?" "He was very quiet " said Mrs. Flandin. "I like that," said Diana. "When a man roars at me, I never can tell what he is saying." "He seemed to kind o' know his own mind," said Mrs. Salter. "I thought he'd got an astonishin' knowledge o' things in the town, for the time he's had," said Mrs. Mansfield.
Starling had generally done most of the talking; she did it all now. Days passed on, and weeks. Mrs. Starling did not find out that anything was the matter with Diana; partly because she was determined that nothing should be the matter; and partly because young Flandin came about the house a good deal, and Mrs.
And it could be seen that for the few months during which he had been among them, the minister had made swift progress in the regards of the people. Scarce a tongue now but spoke in his praise or his justification, or called Mrs. Flandin to account for her hasty remark. "When you're all done, I'll speak," said that lady coolly.
"I don't want him to walk," said Mrs. Flandin; "there's more ways than one o' doin' most things; but I do say, all the ministers ever I see druv a team; and it looks more religious. To see the minister flyin' over the hills like a racer is altogether too gay for my likin's." "But he ain't gay," said Miss Gunn, looking appalled.
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