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Updated: June 26, 2025
Even women totally neglected, or badly fulfilled, their domestic avocations; for who in the parish could sit down quietly to the construction of a garment or a pudding while their beloved pastor, the "all praised" Thurston Willcoxen, lay in prison awaiting his trial for a capital crime? As usual in such cases, there was very little cool reasoning, and very much passionate declamation.
"Who will prevent me?" "I will! You are a maniac, Miriam, and must be restrained from going abroad, and setting the county in a conflagration." "You will have to guard me very close for the whole of my life, then." At that moment the door was quietly opened, and Mr. Willcoxen entered.
Willcoxen, for the crime with which he was charged, an exclamation of horror and amazement burst from her lips. In another moment she had controlled herself, and would gladly have kept the exciting news from the sick man until the morning.
Willcoxen, he did not fail to adduce, from olden history, and from later times, every signal instance of depravity, cloaked with hypocrisy, in high places; he enlarged upon wolves in sheeps' clothing Satan in an angel's garb, and dolefully pointed out how many times the indignant question of "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" had been answered by results in the affirmative.
Our fates are united forever! Henceforth nothing shall dissever us!" They were now drawing near the village. Marian suddenly stopped. "Dear Thurston," she said, "if you are seen waiting upon me to church do you know what the people will say? They will say that Marian has a new admirer in Mr. Willcoxen and that will reach your grandfather's ears, and give you trouble."
They were all warm friends of Mr. Willcoxen, all had known him from boyhood, none would believe that under any possible circumstances he could commit the crime for which he stood indicted.
And after talking with his "liege lady," as he fondly and proudly termed Marian, Mr. Willcoxen was well pleased to return a favorable answer. And in a day or two Thurston and Marian were called upon to give decision in another case, to wit: Jacquelina had not returned to Bethlehem, nor renewed her vows; but had doffed her nun's habit for a young lady's dress, and remained at Luckenough.
Willcoxen redoubled his attentions to Miriam, carefully wrapping her cloak and furs about her, and letting down the leathern blinds and the damask hangings, to exclude the cold; but Miriam shrank from his touch, and shivered more than before, and drew closely into her own corner.
At length the wounded self-esteem of the community received a healing salve, in the form of a report that Mr. Willcoxen had withdrawn from the gay world, in order the better to prepare himself for the Christian ministry. A report that, in twelve months, received its confirmation in the well established fact that Thurston Willcoxen was a candidate for holy orders.
But in that which concerned Thurston Willcoxen alone was Edith interested, and of him she learned the following facts: Of the five years which Mr.
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