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Can he be afraid of my telling his father the story of the hunt-supper? He knows nothing of what I heard up on the Scar. I do hope Ephraim Hebblethwaite is not very unhappy about Fanny. I should think it must be dreadful, when you love any one very much, to see her go and give herself quite away to somebody else.
"No, was I singing that, now?" said Mr Bagnall, laughing. "I did not know I got quite so far. But at a hunt-supper, you know, everything is excusable." "Would you give me a reference to the passage which says so, Mr Bagnall?" came from behind the tea-pot. "I should like to note it in my Bible." Mr Bagnall laughed again, but rather uncomfortably.
"My dear Flora, you do take things so seriously!" I said, trying to laugh; but her tone and words had startled me, for all that. "It is well to take sin seriously," said she. "Men are serious enough in Hell; and sin is its antechamber." "You don't suppose poor Mr Bagnall will be sent there, for a little too much champagne at a hunt-supper?" said I. I did not like it, for I thought of Father.
Essie Langridge was very quiet all the evening; I fancy she was rather frightened of Cecilia. She said very little. Father had a long day's hunting yesterday, and Angus Drummond went with him. Mr Keith would not go, though Father laughed about it, and asked if he were afraid of the hares eating him up. Neither would he go to the hunt-supper, afterwards.
"My dear Mrs Kezia, you do not imagine the Bible has anything to do with a hunt-supper?" "It is to be hoped I don't, or I should be woefully disappointed," she answered. "But I always thought, Mr Bagnall, that the Word of God and the ministers of God should have something to do with one another."
I have heard him singing "Old King Cole" and half a dozen more songs, all mixed up in a heap, after a hunt-supper. "Men always do it there. And I can assure you Mr Bagnall is thought a first-class preacher. People go to hear him even from Cockermouth." "That is worse than ever," said Flora, "A man who preaches the truth and serves the Devil that must be awful!"
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