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Updated: June 17, 2025
Reynolds Bartram and Eleanor Prency rapidly became so fond of each other that the people of the village predicted an early engagement. The young man had become quite a regular attendant at church, not that he had any religious feeling whatever, but that it enabled him to look at his sweetheart for an hour and a half every Sunday morning and walk home with her afterwards.
If Bartram were to remain as he was, and his self-satisfaction to continue so strong as to be manifest upon all occasions and in all circumstances they foresaw a miserable life for their daughter. Hence Mrs. Prency's solicitude about young Bartram. One day Mrs. Prency made a business excuse to call again on the cobbler's assistant. "Mr.
Prency, that gal has broke my heart. I don't have no influence over her at all. You want me to help you out about your daughter. I am goin' to do it just as far as heaven will give me the strength to do it. Now I want to throw myself right at your feet an' beg you, for the love of God, to try to do somethin' for my child." "Why, Mr. Kimper, certainly," said the judge's wife.
All her associates faded from Jane's mind like a fleck of mist under a sunburst, as she answered, "If there's anything you want done that I can do, Mrs. Prency, I'd rather work for you for nothin' than for anybody else for any money." "Come to my house as soon as you like, then, and we'll promise to keep you busy: won't we, daughter?"
Prency," said he, resuming his work again with violent energy, "it's the hardest question that ever come up to me in all my life. It's harder than bein' in jail or breakin' off drinkin' or anythin' else that I ever tried. It's even harder than goin' to work; I give you my word it is." "Mr. Kimper," said the lady, "I'll tell you what I'll do.
When, however, the entire membership of the church aroused to the fact that work was to be done, and Judge Prency and other solid citizens began to take part in the church work, Bartram rested from his efforts and began again to spend his evenings at the home of the young woman whom he most admired. A change seemed to have come over others as well as himself. Mrs.
Prency, having first secured a promise from Sam that the children should go to Sunday-school if they could be decently clad, interested several ladies to the extent of bestowing some old clothing, which she hired a sewing woman to make over into becoming garments for Billy and Mary. Mrs.
So saying, the judge bowed in his most courtly manner to Mrs. Kimper and Jane, and departed. "Let us all pray," said Sam, dropping upon his knees. Eleanor Prency was a miserable young woman during most of the great revival season which followed the special meetings at Dr. Guide's church.
"You haven't grown fast enough, though, to neglect good looks," continued Mrs. Prency, while Eleanor, endeavoring to act according to her mother's injunctions, drawled, "No, indeed!" Then the cobbler's daughter flushed deeper and looked grateful, almost modest, for girls read girls pretty fairly, and Jane saw that Eleanor was regarding her face with real admiration.
"According to the way you seem to be thinking, Judge Prency," said the deacon, coldly, "them that's most deserving are to be passed by for them that's most shiftless." "Those who deserve most are those who need most, aren't they, deacon? that is, if anyone is really 'deserving, as we use the word." "Your notions would break up business entirely, if they were carried out," asserted the deacon.
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