A Laodicean

, as he could see by her outline through the crevices of

Bible, sir, to assist m

n a large moss-covered stone which stood near, and laying his hat on a flat beech bough that rose and fell behind him, pointed t

the chapel, the 'Paula' of Miss De Stancy's enthusiastic eulogies. She wore a summer hat, beneath which her fair curly hair formed a thicket round her forehead. It would be impossible to describe her as she then appeared. Not sensuous enou

fluence her actions for more than a moment, she sat on as before, looking past Somerset's position at t

he leaves of the minis

Corinthians, the seventh chap

apparently, too much labour to keep them raised, allowed her glance to su

ts-I foresee your argument. I have met it dozens of times, and it is not worth that snap of the finge

enth chapter of the Act

f an honest inquirer. Is it, or is it not, an answer to my proofs from the eighth chapter of the Acts, the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh verses; t

ments was revealed by the mobile bosom of Miss Paula Power, though she still occupied herself by drawing out the necklace.) Testimony from Justin Martyr followed; with inferences from Irenaeus in the expression, 'Omnes enim venit per semetipsum salvare; omnes inquam, qui per eum renascuntur in Deum, INFANTES et parvulos et pueros et juvenes.' (At

is countenance was full of commiserating reproach as he lifted his hand, twice shook his head, and said, 'In the Epistle to the Philippians, first chapter and sixteenth verse, it is written that there are some who preach in contention and

rees; Somerset and Miss Power bein

d, with a pretty girlish stiffness, sweeping back the skirt of her dress to free her toes in turning: 'Although you are personally unknown to me, I

om the accident that some few years ago I looked into the question for a special reason. In the study of my profession I was interested in the designing of fonts and baptisteries, an

ddress to-day, I shall not wonder at hearing tha

during his sojourn at the inn. Before he could bring himself to correct an error to which, perhaps, more than to a

t least do not doubt the si

s not altogether si

as si

vered such a defence of me?' s

ily looked in her f

ave spoken so eloquently on the other side if

ps I w

l she said, 'I, to

ou

w

what

had been at all influenced by au

did you decline the cer

ve heard of it!'

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t th

saw

wn the river. 'I cannot g

not,' sai

t deal to possess re

woul

ld have withdrawn had she not said, as if rather oppressed by her conscience, and evidently still t

minis

ds of the village when he ought to be resting at home, till he is absolutely prostrate from exhaustion, and then he sits up at night writing encouraging letters to those poor people who fo

the end, so that she finished

er the minister.... 'Whatever you may have done, I fear that I have grievously wounded a worthy

murmured, 'for i

me, however,' he said; 'and in his distress he has forgotten his Bible

you, by just following, and retur

w his friend before him, leaning over the gate which led from the private path into a lane, his cheek resting on the palm of his ha

hand, and proved his friendliness in return by preparing to have the controversy on their religious differences over again from the beginning, with exhaustive detail. Somerset evaded this with alacrity, and on

s my own daughter. But I am sadly exercised to know what she is at heart. Heaven supply me with fortitude to contes

set, with more fervour tha

e nooks of those silent walls, like a bad odour in a still atmosphere, dulling the iconoclastic emotions of the true Puritan. I

Somerset gently. 'She's not a Paedobap

ulnerable to the mediaeval influences of her mansion, lands, and new acquaintance, it is because she's been vulnerable t

ou asto

of New Lights, as they think themselves?' The minister whispered

ister's horror. 'She's not that; at least, I think not.. .. She

d. 'I love her as my o

minister was too earnest in his converse to see his companion's haste, and it was not till perception was forced upon him by the actual retreat of Somerset that he remembered time to be a limited commodity. He then expressed his wish to see Somerset at hi

minister, when he might have said that he would call on Mr. Woodwell to-morrow, and, making himself known to Miss Power as the visiting architect of whom s

red his doubt whether a certain light in her eyes when she inquired concerning his sincerity were innocent earnestness or the reverse. As the possibility of levity crossed his brain, his face warmed; it pained him to think that a woman so in