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His chin rests upon his hands with an air of meditation; and gradually his thoughts rise up in soliloquy, which is suffered to invade no ear but ours: "Well! who'd have thought it? a parson! devilish good indeed! How it will tell at Murkey's! What a metamorphose! if it don't stagger 'em, nothing will! It's the best thing I've done yet!
I am a flexible student, however, and when I meet you again at Murkey's, shall be prepared to concur with the majority. "But, in sober fact, I am a professor actually recognised by my neighbors as one of the elect set apart to be and do mighty things. How I came so, will call for a long story, which I defer to another occasion.
While he meditates, unseeing, we will use the liberty of an old acquaintance to scan the letter for such it is which he has been writing. Perhaps we shall gather from it some matters which it may concern us yet to know: "Dear Barnabas: The strangest adventure positively the very strangest that ever happened to a son of Murkey's, will keep me from the embraces of the brethren a few weeks longer.
Did I tell you that old Hunks has been deused liberal? I can laugh at the small terms, yet go to Murkey's and shine through the smoke with the best of you. "Faithfully, yours, &c." So far our profligate had written to his brother profligate, when a tap was heard at the entrance of his chamber.
But we may as well strip him. If his gold is in his pouch, it will be a spoil worth the taking, for he has been melting and running for several days past at Murkey's furnace." Rivers turned away, and the feeling which his countenance exhibited might have been that of disdainful contempt as he replied, "Take it, if you please I am in no want of his money. My object was not his robbery."
I am professedly a convert to the true faith, though which that is, I think, has not well been determined among you at Murkey's, or, indeed, anywhere else. I believe the vox populi, vox Dei, still comprises the only wholesome decision which has yet been made on the subject. The popular vote here declares it to be methodism; with you it is baptism or presbytenanism which?
But the glory of the thing think of that, my boy! What a triumph it will be to revolutionize Murkey's! to turnout the drinkers and smokers, and money-changers; to say, 'Hem! my brethren, let us pay no more taxes to sin in this place! There shall be no more cakes and ale.
I do not think, at this moment, that I shall violate any of the laws of the conventicle, like small-witted Brother Woodford; though, so far as the woman is concerned, I should leave it without argument to the free vote of all the Lads of Fancy that ever gather round Murkey's round table, if my justification for turning traitor, would not prove immeasurably more complete than his. "So! so!
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