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The females supplied his place, however, in many respects; and two hours after the party had landed, it was ready again to proceed on its journey into the interior. The last article was stowed in one of the canoes, and Gershom announced his willingness to depart. At this moment, Peter led the bee-hunter aside, telling his friends that he would speedily rejoin them.
The patience he showed, and the gentleness yes, and the strength and firmness, when these were needed. I should have fallen down under my burden in those days, if it hadn't been for Uncle Gershom. I have often wondered, Lizzie, if you knew just what a man your father was." Elizabeth turned her tearful face, smiling now, toward her cousin, but she said nothing. "I never could tell you never!
They were not ornamental, quite the contrary; but they were very useful as a shelter for the horses of the church-goers who came from a distance, and they had been added by way of conciliating the North Gore people when one and another of them began to come to the village church. Toward the church one fair Sabbath morning in June, many Gershom people were hastening.
A most extr'ornary and oncommon callin'!" "More so, think you, Gershom, than swallowing whiskey, morning, noon, and night?" answered the bee-hunter, with a quiet smile. "Aye, but that's not a reg'lar callin'; only a likin'! Now a man may have a likin' to a hundred things in which he don't deal. I set nothin' down as a business, which a man don't live by." "Perhaps you're right, Waring.
She laughed a little at her and the conquest she had made, declaring that if she were determined to spend her life in the far North, it would be wise to give up all thoughts of the parsonage, and make good her claim to be the great lady of Gershom.
"I don't know about that last," said Ben to himself. "It would seem kind o' good to have Clif round 'most anywhere. But he's going to work straight this time, I expect, and I guess he'll have all the better chance to walk straight too." The event of the summer to the people of Gershom was the coming of the new minister.
Katie had been now and then for a visit to Miss Elizabeth, and to other people too, for Katie confessed to being fond of visiting, and above most things disliked the idea of being called odd or proud, or whatever else one was liable to be called in Gershom who "set out to be different from her neighbours."
The usual plan was for parties of friends to keep together, and either before or after the speech-making which was supposed to be the chief interest of the day to seek some suitable spot in field or grove for the enjoyment in common of the many nice things stored in the baskets with which all were supplied. But Gershom folk aimed at something beyond the usual way.
"Gershom is a politician, you see, and I am not. You may laugh, but it is the Gospel truth. I am a reformer, and all I care about is pushing on the idea. I use any tools that I find; and one of the greatest of reformers has said that he was sometimes obliged to use bad ones. If I find good ones, so much the better; if bad well, it is all in the day's job.
As for Gershom, he did not like the thought of retracing his steps so soon, and the females were obliged to remain with the husband and brother. "You had better get out of the river while all the canoes are on this side," said Margery, as she and le Bourdon walked toward the boats in company, the council having ended, and everything beginning to assume the appearance of action.
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