lay-head

Updated: May 24, 2025

Upjohn, the female lay-head of the Presbyterians, who was a walking Decalogue, her every sentence being a law beginning with Thou shalt not, admitted practically, if not theoretically, that without risk of damnation it was possible to swerve occasionally from a too rigid Yea and Nay. Perhaps, ah, well, there is no use in exhausting the perhapses. The fact remained.

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