The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

I50 The Gates Ajar. thoroughly understand and like each other can talk or be silent. We rode home by Deacon Quirk's, and, as we jogged by, there broke upon our view a blooming vision of the Deacon himself, at work in his potato-field with his son and heir, who, by the way, has the reputation of being the most awkward fellow in the township. The amiable church-officer, having caught sight of us, left his work, and coming up to the fence "in rustic modesty unscared," guiltless of coat or vest, his calico shirt-sleeves rolled up to his huge brown elbows, and his dusty straw hat flapping in the wind, rapped on the rails with his hoe-handle as a sign for us to stop. "Are we in a hurry?" I asked, under my breath. " 0 no," said Aunt Winifred. " He has some. what to say unto me, I see by his eyes. I have been expecting it. Let us hear him out. Good afternoon, Deacon Quirk." " Good afternoon, nma'am. Pleasant day?" She assented to the statement, novel as it w'as. "A very pleasant day," repeated the Deacon, looking for the first time in his life, to my

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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