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Updated: June 9, 2025
"What a argument!" sez Arvilly, liftin' her eyes to heaven. "But you hain't answered my question," sez she, short as pie crust, mince pie crust, "Is there an evil law existing to-day that the Church of Christ could not overthrow if it tried to?" "Well, no," he admitted, "I believe that the Church of Christ is invincible." "Do you vote, Elder Minkley?"
But I confess that I did feel a little dubersome in my own mind. I felt that she ort to have took it more openly. She had been and contoggled three days and a half for Miss Elder Minkley, and got fifty cents a day for contogglin'. She had fixed over the waists of two old dresses, and contoggled a old dress skirt so's it looked most as well as new. Amelia is a good contoggler and a good Christian.
Brother Minkley had by this time begun to find and recover himself, and he sez with real good nature, "I meant to say, dear sister, that I hadn't seen you before since you lost your husband." "Since you murdered him," sez she. "I I murder a man?" He looked pale and trembled like a popple leaf. "Yes, you and all other good men who stood by like Pilate, consentin' to his death," Arvilly went on.
Sez I, "Elder Minkley is here, Josiah Allen, and Deacon Henzy Jonesville church is languishin' in debt. Is this a time for feathers? What will they think on't? If you can spend money for silk scarfs and plumes, they'll expect you, and with good reason, too, to raise the debt on the meetin'-house." He paused. Economy prevailed; what love couldn't effect or common sense, closeness did.
I sent out invitations for a party; I laid out to invite all my own dear ones, old and young, Elder Minkley and his wife, Arvilly, and how I did want to invite Ernest White and Waitstill Webb, but he wuz away on a long vacation, and Waitstill I hadn't hearn from for weeks, she wuz in the Philippines the last I hearn.
And Miss Meechim sayin' that it would be a pity to go home and not be able to say that we had been to what wuz once the most learned and genteel place in the hull world. "Yes," sez Josiah, "I'd love to tell Elder Minkley and the brethern I'd been there." And Miss Meechim went on to say that she wanted to see the Acropolis and the Hall of the Nymphs and the Muses.
"Well, no, as it were, Sister Arvilly, I have felt for years that politics was too vile for me to mix myself with." Sez Arvilly, "Do you believe in following the Lord Jesus Christ?" Sez Elder Minkley, his good natured face lighting up, "My Divine Master; yes, I will follow him to the stake, to the death, if need be."
Why, she acted real wild and by the side of herself, and I pitied her like a dog, and wuz at my wit's end what to say to her, and I wuz glad enough to see Elder Minkley, good old saint, comin' up the steps and I went to open the door with alacrity and my left hand, my right hand wuz in the dough, I wuz makin' fried cakes, and I shook hands with him the same, and I sez: "How glad I am to see you this morning, Brother Minkley," little thinkin' what wuz to come.
And I sez, "You couldn't have looked Elder Minkley in the face, could you? if you had gone into that shameful diversion." "No, I couldn't, nor into yourn nuther. I couldn't have looked nobody in the face, if I had gone on and imposed on any young girl as they are a doin', and insulted of her.
But I confess that I did feel a little dubersome in my own mind. I felt that she ort to have took it more openly. She had been and contoggled three days and a half for Miss Elder Minkley, and got fifty cents a day for contogglin'. She had fixed over the waists of two old dresses, and contoggled a old dress skirt so's it looked most as well as new. Amelia is a good contoggler and a good Christian.
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