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Budd is also a very religious man. Indeed, he is warden at the Parish Church. 'He is a small, sleek-headed bachelor of five and forty, whose scandalous life has long furnished his more moral neighbors with an afterdinner joke. But a very religious man is Mr. Budd! Mrs. Linnett is a very religious woman. She dotes on religious biography.
Religion was always beating upon the lives of Mr. Dempster and Mr. Budd and Mrs. Linnett, as the sunlight beats upon the coat and the cut-flowers. They did not open their hearts to it; they made no eager response to it; it was a thing that shone upon the surface, and that was all. Their lives consequently wilted and shriveled and grew less beautiful.
'On taking up the biography of a celebrated preacher, she immediately turns to the end to see what he died of, and she likes the book all the better if a sinister element enters into its composition. Mrs. Linnett is a very religious woman and a gossip! We are introduced to a whole group of such characters men and women who are very religious, but who are none the better for their religion.
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