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I thought they had gone out." Carol watched very, very closely all that evening, and she could not see one particle of difference between these mansers and the young folks in the Methodist Church in Mount Mark, Iowa. They told funny stories, and laughed immoderately at them.
But to David she said: "I did seriously and religiously ask the Lord to let me get introduced to the mansers without disgracing myself, and I am just a teeny bit disappointed because He went back on me in such a crisis." But David, wise minister and able exponent of his faith, said quickly: "He didn't go back on you, Carol.
The Barhams and Mansers were also great iron-men, officiating as high sheriffs of the county at different times, and occupying spacious mansions. One branch of these families terminated, Mr. Lower says, with Nicholas Barham, who died in the workhouse at Wadhurst in 1788; and another continues to be represented by a wheelwright at Wadhurst of the same name.
The devoted mansers rallied around them, weeping over them, giving them good advice along with other more material, but not more helpful, assistance and declaring they always knew David was too good to live.
"I beat you," she teased, irrelevantly. "I am surprised, a great big man like you." "And to-morrow we'll be in St. Louis." "Yes," she assented, weakening swiftly. "And the mansers will have me in their deadly clutch." "The only manser who will clutch you is myself." He drew her closer in his arm as he spoke. "And you like it." "Yes, I love it. And I like the mansers already. I hope they like me.
"Are you trying to become the preacher in our family?" "All packed up and ready to start," she said thoughtfully, "and to-morrow night we leave our darling little manse, and our precious old mansers and turn cowboy. Aren't you glad you didn't send me home?"
I don't suppose the mansers could possibly object to a complexion like mine. I can get a certificate from father to prove it is genuine, if they don't believe it." Then she gave her full attention to tucking up tiny, straying curls with invisible hair pins, and was quite startled when David called suddenly: "Hurry up, Carol, I am waiting for you." "Oh, bless its heart, I forgot all about it.
Duke, honeymooners, gazed speechlessly at the group of young men standing motionless forty feet away, then Carol wheeled about and ran swiftly across the velvety grass, over the hill and out of sight, her husband in close pursuit. Once she paused. "If the mansers could have seen us then!" she ejaculated, with awe in her voice. The introduction of Mrs.
And when it was all over, they pushed the dishes back and clasped their hands promiscuously together and talked with youthful passion of what they were going to do, and how wonderful their opportunity for service was, and what revolutions they were going to work in the lives of the nice, but no doubt prosy mansers, and how desperately they loved each other.
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