to ask me. She busied herself examining the stoles again and asked: How much did these things cost if you don't mind my askin'? I don't know. They were given to me by a friend of mine when I graduated from the Seminary. Hm! a friend of yours eh? She must think an awful lot of you. Hepsey gave Donald a sharp glance. I didn't say it was a lady. No but your eyes and cheeks did,vans authentic. Well it's none of my business and there's no reason that I know of why the Devil should have all the bright colors and embroideries and things. Are you High Church? Maxwell hesitated a moment and replied: What do you mean by 'High Church?' The last rector we had was awful high. Hepsey smiled with reminiscent amusement. How so? We suspected he didn't wear no pants durin' service. How very extraordinary! Is that a symptom of ritualism? Well you see he wore a cassock under his surplice and none of our parsons had ever done that before. The Senior Warden got real stirred up about it and told Mr. Whittimore that our rectors always wore pants durin' service. Mr. Whittimore pulled up his cassock and showed the Warden that he had his pants on. The Warden told him it was an awful relief to his mind as he considered goin' without pants durin' service the enterin' wedge for Popish tricks; and if things went on like that nobody knew where we would land. Then some of the women got talkin' and said that the rector practiced celibacy and that some one should warn him that the parish wouldn't stand for any more innovations and he'd better look out. So one day Virginia Bascom the Senior Warden's daughter told him what was being said about him. The parson just laughed at Ginty and said that celibacy was his misfortune not his fault; and that he hoped to overcome it in time. That puzzled her some and she came to me and asked what celibacy was,vans shoes on sale. When I told her it was staying unmarried like St. Paul--my but wasn't she mad though! You ought to have seen her face. She was so mortified that she wouldn't speak to me for a week. Well I guess I've gossiped enough for now. I must go and make my biscuits for supper. If I can help you any just call out,cheapest vans shoes.As we have seen when Maxwell began his work in Durford he was full of the enthusiasm of youth and inexperience. He was however heartily supported and encouraged in his efforts by all but Sylvester Bascom. Without being actively and openly hostile the Senior Warden under the guise of superior wisdom and a judicial regard for expediency managed to thwart many of his projects. After each interview with Bascom Maxwell felt that every bit of life and heart had been pumped out of him and that he was very young and very foolish to attempt to make any change in the good old ways of the parish which for so many years had stunted its growth and had acquired the immobility of the laws of the Medes and Persians.But there was one parishioner who was ever ready to suggest new ventures to elevate the people and to play the part of intimate friend and adviser to her good-looking rector and that was Virginia Bascom. For some unknown reaRelated articles:

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