From: Sprouse J. <mos...@as...> - 2009-08-25 03:35:13
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D notable women, who delight in an overworked parson, for the pleasure they take in recommending their teas, and plasters, and nostrums. The more frail and attenuated the teacher, the more he takes hold upon their pity; and in losing the vigor of the flesh, he seems to their compassionate eyes to grow into the spiritualities they pine for. But he must not give over his visitings; _that_ hair-cloth shirt of penance he must wear to the end, if he would achieve saintship. Now, just at this crisis, it happens that there is a tall, thin, pale young man--Rev. Theophilus Catesby by name, and nephew of the late Deacon Simmons (now unhappily deceased)--who has preached in Ashfield on several occasions to the "great acceptance" of the people. Ta |