The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

152 The Gates Ajar. you know, and one of your sentimental girls that reads poetry, and is easy enough led away by vain delusions and false doctrine - was under your charge at Sunday school. Now Clotildy is intimate with my wife, - who is her aunt on her mother's side, and always tries to do her duty by her, - and she told Mrs. Quirk what you'd been a saying to those young minds on the Sabbath." He stopped, and observed her impressively, as if he expected to see the guilty blushes of arraigned heresy covering her amused, attentive face. "I hope you will pardon me, ma'am, for repeating it, but Clotildy said that you told her she should have a pianna in heaven. A piannZa, ma'am " " I certainly did," she said quietly. "You did? Well, now, I did n't believe it, nor I would n't believe it, till I'd asked you! I thought it warn't more than fair that I should ask you, before repeating it, you know. It's none of my business, Mrs. Forceythe, any more than that I take a general interest in the spiritooal welfare of the youth of our Sabbath school; but I am very much surprised! I am very much surprised "

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