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Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901

"The Three Brides"

I fancy all her
doctrine comes out of the Westminster Catechism."
"Could Calvinism be put in at seven years old? Would not it be a
pouring of stiff glue into a narrow-necked phial?"
"Result--nil."
"A few pure drops might got in--and you could give her books."
"It had struck me that it might be wholesome work for her; but the
children's good must stand first. And, timid and reserved as she
seems, she insisted on preaching at the work-room, so that Cecil had
to put a stop to it."
"Are you certain about that preaching?"
"Rose heard of it from Cecil herself."
"Did she ask what it amounted to?"
"I don't know; perhaps I had better find out. I remember it came
after that ride to Sirenwood. By the bye, Jenny, I wish Cecil could
be hindered from throwing herself into that oak of Broceliande!"
"Are not you so suspicious that you see the waving arms and magic
circles everywhere?"
"A friendship with any one here is so unnatural, that I can't but
think it a waving of hands boding no good. And there is worse than
friendship in that quarter too.


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