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It came to the sexton's ears, and he very properly informed me." I felt relieved, and the first day we had on the ice went off very fairly. The boys were sheepish at first and slow to come on, and when they had assembled in force they were inclined to be bullying.
"In the first place, men like that wouldn't go to church " Charlie stared at him. "What!" he exclaimed. "No," said the boy. "Why not?" "Well, why should they care to go? And they wouldn't be welcome " Charlie burst into laughter. "You poor kid!" he exclaimed. "What have you been doing up there at St. Matthew's, anyhow?" "I'm the sexton's assistant," said Samuel gravely. "Yes," said the other.
Lynn's man goes into three, one inside the other. Well, I can understand that if Dr. Sexton's theory be correct, it may perhaps be as easy to get into a "nest" of three as into one box; but how, in the name of nature or art does the nautical gentleman get out of the double sack in which he is tied? I cannot bring myself to print what Dr.
The quantity of liquor he had drunk was sufficient to justify the conclusion that he was not as steady on his pins as a sober man would have been. He had over-balanced himself, and and that was the whole story. The coroner's jury brought in a verdict in accordance with the facts, and the Captain's body was put to bed with the sexton's spade. A will, drawn up in due form in the office of Mr.
On glancing around he would perceive the heraldic honours of a most noble and ancient family now extinct the paltry remains of the splendid helmet, which had decked, perhaps, the proud hero of feudal power, thrown into a degrading hole with the sexton's spade, and the sacred rostrum where the eloquence of the second Rabelais has astonished the village auditors, and perhaps led them to doubt that such intellect was mutable, now filled by another!
The police director had the chapel opened and went in with the young Latitudinarian; then he told the police sergeant to lock the door behind him and to put the key back where he had found it, and to shut the window of the sexton's cottage carefully.
Sustained by his own consciousness of innocence, and the confidence reposed in him by those who knew him best, his mind soon regained its cheerful tone. He felt an inward conviction that God would vindicate his innocence. His vindication came sooner than he anticipated. The next day as the sexton's family were seated at their plain dinner, a knock was heard upon the outer door.
He was simply but neatly clad in a long shroud, spotted with churchyard mould, had tied up his jaw with a strip of yellow linen, and carried a small lantern and a sexton's spade.
He had found the boat, in the morning, moored about fifty yards from her moorings where he had left it the night before, and could not think how that came to pass; and now, as he and his partner were about to take their oars, they discovered this bell in the bottom of the boat, under a bit of canvas, also the sexton's pick and spade "tom-spey'ad," they termed that peculiar, broad-bladed implement.
But he stopped short as he came face to face with the sexton who was just crossing the porch. "Here, you! Where've you been? What you been up to?" cried the man, clutching at him angrily, but the boy was too quick. He ducked suddenly, slipped under the sexton's hands and darted across the porch and down the steps. Then he stopped to call back,
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