Hubert's Wife

upon one certain point he was inflexible. This was upon the subject of immersion; he wo

nsiderable concessions to her own religious convictions. For, while stoutly believing in sprinkling, in infant baptism, in open communion, and in each and every tenet of Presbyterianism, she had actually been received into the Calvinistic Baptist Church! What an unheard-of thing! It created no little talk among the good people of Newberg, and more for this reason: Mrs. Job Manning, a farmer's wife, who dutifully assisted her husband in earning a frugal living on the rocky sides of King's Hill, having been a Con

ing up their mouths most decidedly, as if a sacrilege had already been committed by so astounding a proposition. Of course the duty fell upon Mr. Savage, t

stian manner, and thereby show herself worthy to eat the bread a

sed approvingly their eyes, and after balancing themselves a moment upon

nning arose ha

at with her at home, thank God, and if she ain't good enough to eat with me at the tabl

body of Christians, up to his pew in the side aisle, and plucking his wife by the s

nning had done, and stand it out to the bitter end. It was a dilemma, no disputing about that. A bad precedent, more particularly after the precedent in the Manning case. But it must be got along with, and it was, and Mrs. Colonel Selby, a strict and ultra Presbyterian,

endencies." It is not at all strange that Protestantism should protest against this definition, and should establish its own instead: An assemblage of things so adjusted and built up as that they

ies. Moreover, she deemed herself quite in the right, and the Baptist Church had mounted upon the plane it behooved itsel

tion tended and was silent. He accompanied his mother's cousin to her native city, and was there

led from one college, was received into another. So bad use had he made of his former advantages that he was

ated with honor, when, for the first time since th

f him. They had not forgotten how he used to annoy and vex them. They early perceived the change, and became distressingly fond of him. It would be so nice to have an elder brother to go with them everywhere. And suc

nd fashion were in full glow and flow, music all atremble to stir into life, bright eyes were flashing expectation, and dainty lips had sweet words waiting to say, and he would not ap

disappointment. He could have told them he was no lion, and would not be paraded.

d alive. Come out so peerless and beautiful, and all

r swollen eyes, put on fresh lily white and carmine, and joined their guests. What should they h

om. They were passing through the hall. Opposite her door, Estelle stoop

Della, "and absents himself

ed Estelle, pettishl

eminate butterflies down stairs, who say only silly nothings, because, forsooth, they

o, for the last half hour, have seemed to be unconscious that ther

l simper and softness. He can talk with one without being lost in his own self-conceit, f

lip. His own door opened upon the hall very near to the waiting girls; he had heard every word. First, the voice of D

n is there, it seems, the best fellow I ever knew. Who knows? Maybe a shoe-strin

s mother's guests. There was but one drawback to the joy and gratification of