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I went there once with mother and Imogen to buy a silver spoon for Cousin Hannah Green when she got married." Comfort, trailing the sled behind her, started timidly after Matilda. Gerrish's was a small store, but there was a large window full of watches and chains and clocks, and a man with spectacles sat behind it mending watches.
His speech was thickening and breaking. "You think science going do everything evolution! Talk me about evolution! What's evolution done for Hatboro'? 'Volved Gerrish's store. One day of Christianity real Christianity Where's that boy? If I get hold of him " He lunged forward, and Jack Wilmington and young Munger stepped before him. Mrs.
"That's the way Ellen and I feel about it," said Putney; "but we don't know how much of a party there is with us." "But everybody everybody must feel the same way about Mr. Gerrish's behaviour? I don't see how you can be so quiet about it you and Ellen!" Annie looked from one to another indignantly, and Putney laughed. "We're not feeling quietly about it," said Mrs. Putney.
Wilmington sat down amidst a general sensation, which was heightened by Putney's failure to anticipate any action on Gerrish's part. Gerrish rapidly finished something he was saying to Colonel Marvin, and then half rose, and said, "Mr. Moderator, I withdraw my resolution for the time being, and for the present, sir," and sat down again. "Mr.
"Do I understand that you move the adoption of this resolution?" "Why, certainly, sir," said Mr. Gerrish, with an accent of supercilious surprise. "You did not say so," said the minister gently. "Does any one second Brother Gerrish's motion?" A murmur of amusement followed Mr. Peck's reminder to Mr. Gerrish, and an ironical voice called out "Mr. Moderator!" "Mr. Putney."
The air sparkled full of sun, and a breeze from the south-west frolicked with the twinkling leaves of the overarching elms, and made their shadows dance on the crisp roadway, packed hard by the rain, and faced with clean sand, which crackled pleasantly under Mrs. Munger's phaeton wheels. She talked incessantly. "I think we'll go first to Mrs. Gerrish's, and then to Mrs. Wilmington's.
And so it happened that three months later, when it was examination day at school, and Comfort had a new blue tibet dress to wear, and some new ribbon to tie her hair, that her mother handed her a little box just before she started. "Here," said she. "Your father has been over to Gerrish's, and here's something he bought you. I hope you'll be careful and not lose it."
Gerrish stood waiting, and he frowned a little; he was a nervous man. "Ask him," whispered Matilda, fiercely. Suddenly Comfort Pease turned herself about and ran out of Gerrish's, with a great wail of inarticulate words about not wanting any ring. The door banged violently after her. Matilda Stebbins looked after her in a bewildered way; then she looked up at Mr. Gerrish, who was frowning harder.
"I don't care what it is, I don't ask what it is, that keeps them down. I don't expect to invite my clerks or Mrs. Gerrish's servants into my parlour. I will meet them at the polls, or the communion table, or on any proper occasion; but a man's home is sacred.
"Well, you'd better go right home and tell your mother about it," said the stout woman, and went her way with many backward glances. Matilda dragged her sled to Comfort's side and eyed her dubiously. "Why didn't you get the ring when we were right there with the gold dollar?" she demanded. "What made you run out of Gerrish's that way?" "I'm go ing home," sobbed Comfort.
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