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Lurton think that if she had done wrong, she ought to confess it? Couldn't she be forgiven without that? Wouldn't he pray for her unless she confessed it? He ought not to be so hard on her. Would God be hard on her if she did not tell it all? Oh! she was so miserable! Mr.
How should he venture to hope that a woman who had refused Lurton, should be willing to marry him? And to marry his dishonor besides?
And even the voice, faithful and obedient hitherto, always holding the same rhythmical pace, had suddenly broken rein, galloping up and down the gamut in a husky jangling. "Mr. Plausaby, let us walk," said Lurton, not affecting in the least to ignore Plausaby's agitation. They walked in silence through the village out to the prairie. Plausaby, habitually a sham, tried, to recover his ground.
There may be some truth, after all, in that acrid saying of Mrs. Ferret's about 'sanctified affliction, though she does know how to make even truth hateful. I haven't learned to believe as you and Mr. Lurton would have me, and yet I have learned not to believe so much in my own infallibility.
All the faith I could profess would be that I believe enough in Christ to wish to be his disciple. I know Mr. Lurton wouldn't think that enough. But I don't believe Jesus himself would refuse me. His immediate followers couldn't have believed much more than that at first. And I don't think you would refuse me baptism if you were a minister. "Mr.
But noblesse oblige noblesse does more than oblige and Isa Marlay, against all her habits of acting on practical expediency, could not bring herself to marry the excellent Lurton without a consciousness of moral descending, while she could not give herself a single satisfactory reason for feeling so. It went hard with Lurton.
Plausaby knew well enough that a confession had been made to Lurton, but he had not suspected that Isabel would go so far as to put it into writing. The best that could be done was to have Conger frame a counter-declaration that her confession had been signed under a misapprehension had been obtained by coercion, over-persuasion, and so forth.
"You see a feller went through our town I've laid off a town you know called it Charlton, arter her you know they wuz a feller come along yisterday as said as he'd come on from Washin'ton City weth Preacher Lurton, and he'd heern him tell as how as Ole Buck the President I mean had ordered you let out. An' I'm that glad! Howdy!
You will come round right after a while, and then you will find that to be saved, a man must abhor every so-called good thing that he ever did." "Yes," said Charlton, who had grown more modest in his trials, "I am sure there is some truth in the old doctrine as you state it. But is not a man better and more open to divine grace, for resisting a temptation to vice?" Mr. Lurton hesitated.
I have been a high-church skeptic I thought as much of my own infallibility as poor O'Neill in the next cell does of the Pope's. And I suppose I shall always have a good deal of aggressiveness and uneasiness and all that about me I am the same restless man yet, full of projects and of opinions. I can not be Lurton I almost wish I could. But I have learned some things.
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