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Cerinthy Ann contrived to produce an agreeable electric shock by declaring, that, for her part, she never could see into it, how any girl could marry a minister, that she should as soon think of setting up housekeeping in a meeting-house. "Oh, Cerinthy Ann!" exclaimed her mother, "how can you go on so?"
That ar cradle always will rock in a gale, but I've got used to it, and don't mind it. 'Well, says Cerinthy, 'jist as true as you live, I just saw a woman with a silk gown on, and long black hair a-hangin' down, and her face was pale as a sheet, sittin' rockin' that ar cradle, and she looked round at me with her great black eyes kind o' mournful and wishful, and then she stooped down over the cradle. 'Well, says Lois, 'I ain't goin' to have no such doin's in my house, and she went right in and took up the baby, and the very next day she jist had the cradle split up for kindlin'; and that night, if you'll believe, when they was a-burnin' of it, they heard, jist as plain as could be, a baby scream, scream, screamin' round the house; but after that they never heard it no more."
"I think not, materially," said Mary. "Well," said Cerinthy, rising, "the men will be coming home from the mowing, before I get home, and want their supper. Mother has got one of her headaches on this afternoon, so I can't stop any longer. There isn't a soul in the house knows where anything is, when I am gone.
There were those evident signs of a consultation impending, which, to an experienced eye, are as unmistakable as the coming up of a shower in summer. Cerinthy began by passionately demolishing several heads of clover, remarking, as she did so, that she "didn't see, for her part, how Mary could keep so calm when things were coming so near."
"Well, I suppose everybody would hold up their hands; and yet, if I do say it myself," she added, coloring, "there are not many girls who could make a better minister's wife than I could, if I had a mind to try." "That I am sure of," said Mary, warmly. "I guess you are the only one that ever thought so," said Cerinthy, giving an impatient toss.
But he jest went into the bedroom and laid down afore supper; and I says to Cerinthy Ann, 'That's a thing I ha'n't seen your father do since he was took with the typhus. And Cerinthy Ann, she said she knew 'twa'n't anything but them old doctrines, that it was always so when Uncle Seth come down.
I asked him why he didn't go and take Miss Olladine Slocum: everybody says she would make a first-rate minister's wife." "Well, and what did he say to that?" said Mary. "Well, something really silly, about my looks," said Cerinthy, looking down.
As Mary had been the chosen confidante of the progress of this affair, she was quietly amused at the demonstration. "You'd better take care, Cerinthy Ann," said her mother; "they say that 'those who sing before breakfast will cry before supper. Girls talk about getting married," she said, relapsing into a gentle didactic melancholy, "without realizing its awful responsibilities."
"Jim was fairly overcrowed, it really made him feel small, and he says he'll agree that there is more in the Doctor's religion than most men's: which shows how important it is for professing Christians to bear testimony in their works, as I was telling Cerinthy Ann Twitchel: and she said there wa'n't anything made her want to be a Christian so much, if that was what religion would do for people.
And Mary, quite well pleased with the placid and orderly stillness which reigned through the house, sat pleasantly murmuring a little tune to her sewing, when suddenly the trip of a very brisk foot was heard in the kitchen, and Miss Cerinthy Ann Twitchel made her appearance at the door, her healthy glowing cheek wearing a still brighter color from the exercise of a three-mile walk in a July day.
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