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Better sacrifice three or four sheets of sermon-paper than sacrifice the interest of your hearers.
The cousin had devoted herself during breakfast to giving a lively description of social life in India, and was preparing to spend the morning in continuing her lecture, when the elder lady slipped out of the room, and returned with some sermon-paper, a blotting-book, and a pen. "Maud," she said, "this is too good to be lost: you must write it all down, every word!"
The verse seems as if it were made on purpose for me; what a pity nobody else will understand it! And he smiled quietly at the conceit, as he got the scented sheets of sermon-paper out of his little sandalwood davenport.
Always as the young minister bent over his sermon-paper, laboriously tracing out with sputtering quill his application of the articles of the orthodox faith, Evelina's blue eyes seemed to look out at him between the stern doctrines like the eyes of an angel.
I have thought it over; but while he is in this mood, the making him feel victimized and interfered with has a worse effect than the letting him have his swing." "What is he doing now, I wonder? Here's his sermon-paper on the table, and a Greek Testament, and Hints on Decorating Churches, with 'Constance Strangeways' on the first leaf no other book. How long will this saturnalia last?"
It's the one democratic thing in the modern world. It's a republic inside this old monarchy of ours. Look, here it is, my first bet with your grandfather and I'm only sixty now! He smoothed the page with his hand in a manner such as I have seen a dean do with his sermon-paper in a cathedral puplit. 'Here it is, thirty-six years ago. He read the bet aloud.
It was difficult, but no doubt it was the best; and he tried it accordingly putting down a great many sentences which had to be scratched out again, and spoiling altogether the appearance of the sermon-paper.
But Langholm had a soul far below roses at the present moment; his neatly numbered sheets of ruled sermon-paper were nearing the five hundredth page; his hero and his heroine were in the full sweep of those emotional explanations which they had ingeniously avoided for the last three hundred at least; in a word, Charles Langholm's new novel is being finished while you wait.
It's the one democratic thing in the modern world. It's a republic inside this old monarchy of ours. Look, here it is, my first bet with your grandfather and I'm only sixty now! He smoothed the page with his hand in a manner such as I have seen a dean do with his sermon-paper in a cathedral puplit. 'Here it is, thirty-six years ago. He read the bet aloud.
And therefore did Tom lean back in his chair, and survey, with intense satisfaction, the great sheet of sermon-paper which was covered with his scrawlings. Tom was a handsome fellow, if he did look very well pleased with himself at that particular moment.
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