The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 55 field (the Deacon changed his position with evident uneasiness), and put into another life, — not anybody else, but yourself, just as you left this spot, -and do you honestly think that you should be happy to go and put on a white dress and stand still in a choir with a green branch in one hand and a singing-book in the other, and sing and pray and never do anything but sing and pray, this year, next year. and every year forever? " "We-ell," he replied, surprised into a momentary flash of carnal candor, "I can't say that I should n't wonder for a minute, maybe, how Abinadab would ever get thosepotatoes hoed without me. Abinadab! go back to your work! " The graceful Abinadab had sauntered up during the conversation, and was listening, hoe in hand and mouth open. He slunk away when his father spoke, but came up again presently on tiptoe when Aunt Winifred was talking. There was an interested, intelligent look about his square and pitifully embarrassed face, which attracted my notice. "But then," proceeded the Deacon, re-enforced by the sudden recollection of his duties as a father and a church-member, "that

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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