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Rigg was small, deep-wrinkled, with amused and knowing eyes.
Ill have a good
time with those folks, he reflected, in theluxury of a taxicab.
Were not
burningwith a fever of righteousness.
Rigg,the famous criminal lawyer, a
trustee of Wellspring Church.
Not so rich but even more important, Elmer
guessed, was T. He would be, Elmer felt instantly, a good man with whom to
drink. Look here, sniffed Rigg, you dont have to be pious with us! They looked
as blank as they could, but their nails creased theirpalms as the bishop
rose.
He madethe Memorial Day address to the G.
Theserubes here get about as
much out of high-class religion, like Igive them, as a fleet of mules! Do you
expect to be made perfect in love in this life? But fars Iveheard, nobodys
started it here in Zenith yet, and it might make abig sensation. Those are
folks I can shoot straight with, decided Elmer, and hekept near them. At the
business meeting of his church there was a stirring squabbleover his
activities. But could he find virtue soeasily, could he, could he? What should
Miss Weezeger, the deaconess, do about this old MissMally, who wanted a new
nightgown?
He would be, Elmer felt instantly, a good man with whom to
drink.
What should Miss Weezeger, the deaconess, do about this old MissMally,
who wanted a new nightgown?
Anyway, theres plenty of room for the crowds, and
believeme, Im the boy can drag em in! There was gleefuland unseemly applause,
and Elmer beamed. Elmers own study and office was airless, and looked out on
theflivver-crowded yard of a garage. On Sunday there were seven hundredpresent.
He was excited to intoxication by their laughter. She breathed hard, tried to
look resolute.
Why, you poor lonely girl, shame you have to sleep allalone
here, poor baby!
Rigg was small, deep-wrinkled, with amused and knowing eyes.
Will you recommend fasting or diligence, both by precept andexample? He hated
Cleo again now, in aninjured, puzzled way.
He hated Cleo again now, in
aninjured, puzzled way. Anyway, theres plenty of room for the crowds, and
believeme, Im the boy can drag em in!
They were not all of them leonine and
actor-like, these staffofficers. On Sunday there were seven
hundredpresent.
After you shake hands a few thousand more times!
So, at
thirty-nine, Cæsar came to Rome, and Rome heard about itimmediately.
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