A Pair of Patient Lovers

iversity had been established there under the name of its founder, Josiah Hilbrook. The town itself had then just changed its name, in co

er a hundred and seventy years of this custom it began on that day to call itself Hilbrook, and thenceforward, with the

m as a locality. He had, in fact, never been an important man in West Mallow, up to the time he had left it to seek his fortune in New York; and when he died, somewhat abruptly, and left his money, as it were, out of a clear sky, to his native place in

them at Hilbrook to the small body of believers to which his people adhered. This sect had a name by which it was officially known to itself; but, like the Shakers, the Quake

nd rather than because she had been convinced of its truth. From the first she complained that the Rixonites were cold; and if there was anything Emily Ewbert had always detested, it was coldne

root theology," her

waiting in the world won't"-she cast about for some powerful image-"won't keep t

anguor which sometimes made her say, in reprobation of her own pleasure in it, that he wa

y or mere mortality. His sermons were all very good, however; and that was another thing that put her out of patience with his Rixonite parishioners-that they should sit there Sunday after Sunday, ye

ospel," he suggested, in a pensive se

e some of the university people in the congregation, I want you to use your old sermons from this out. They'll never