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"Well?" said the lady, for Sam seemed to be hesitating about what he wanted to say. "I don't hardly know how to say it, ma'am, an' I'm awfully afraid to say it at all; but well, there, Mrs. Prency, I guess I know why you are so very much interested in the religious welfare of that young lawyer."
The meeting was closed soon afterwards; and as Sam, in spite of an occasional kind greeting, was endeavoring to escape from the hard stare of curious eyes, Mrs. Judge Prency, who was the handsomest and most distinguished woman in the village, stopped him, grasped his hand, and said, "Mr. Kimper, you gave the most sensible speech I ever heard in an experience meeting.
That fellow has only got hold of one end of the Scripture one little jag end of it." "Too small an end to be worthy of your attention, I suppose, deacon?" "This is all wasted time and idle talk, Judge Prency," said the deacon, leaving the place so quickly that he forgot to ask for his letters.
Prency, earnestly, "in the book that you have been reading so industriously, from which you have learned so much, and from which I hope you will continue to learn a great deal, don't you remember something that is said about the Lord having selected the feeble ones of this world to confound the wise?" Sam looked down meditatively at the dropped shoe, and replied in a moment,
Are you working here?" "Only to finish a job that was promised for this afternoon, Mrs. Prency." "Where's Larry?" "He felt very badly," said Sam, "an' he wanted to go home, an' I promised to finish his work for him. I believe this is your job, ma'am?" said he, holding the shoe in the air for an instant. "Yes," said the judge's wife.
Eleanor Prency was the handsomest girl in all Bruceton. Indeed, she so far distanced all other girls in brilliancy and manners, as well as in good looks, that no other young woman thought of being jealous of her. Among her sex she occupied the position of a peerless horse or athlete among sporting men; she was "barred" whenever comparisons were made.
Well off, handsome, and brilliant, they had both been among the most persistent and successful of pleasure-seekers. Reviewing those days, Mrs. Prency could say that utter selfishness and self-love had been her deepest sins. Her husband, looking back at his own life, could truthfully say the same, but the details were different.
Prency burst out laughing. The young woman saw the blunder she had committed, and continued, quickly, "I mean that I wish he had never got out again. The idea of a fellow like that coming back to this town and talking and working on people's sympathies in such a way as to carry intelligent people right off their feet!
"Did you change your views at all under his arguments?" "Oh, no, ma'am," said the man, looking up with an eager expression of countenance. "How could I?" "I'm so glad," murmured the woman. "Well, what did he say?" "I can't repeat all his words, Mrs. Prency, because he talks a good deal better than I do, you know, an' maybe I wouldn't give them the sense that they had, the way that he meant them."
Reynolds Bartram. Eleanor sprang to her feet, spreading dress-goods, and needles, and spools of silk, and thread, and scissors, and thimbles, all over the floor. Jane looked up timidly for an instant, and bent her head lower over her work. But Mrs. Prency received him as graciously as if she were the Queen of England sitting upon her throne, with her royal robes upon her.
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