Part 7 (1/2)
”'He shall call uponthe Ninety-first Psalm
This incident was still the subject of irl came out of the yard and paused a e, papa?” she asked
”Yes,” he answered, and then as she tripped away, said:
”She's one of azed between his knees at the sidewalk
”Have youthem, are you?”
”Yes”
”They see everything away is satisfactory to you but rather hard on your wife and children”
”Well, it is true that she did feel a little uncertain in the beginning, but she's never wanted for anything She'll tell you herself that she's never been without a thing that she really needed, and she's been happy”
He paused to meditate, I presume, over the opinion of his former fellonsmen, and then added:
”It's true, there have been tis pretty badly, before they came, but they never failed to co, Mrs Potter came around the corner of the house and out upon the sidewalk She was going to the Saturday evening market in the city below
”Here she is,” he said ”Now you can ask her”
”What is it?” she inquired, turning a serene and s face to me
”They still think, down in Noank, that you're not very happy withonce in a while”
She took this piece of neighborly interference in better fashi+on thansince I have been hly contented”
She looked at him and he at her, and there passed between thelance
”Yes,” he said, when she had passed after a pleasing little conversation, ”reat help to me She has never complained”
”People are inclined to talk a little,” I said
”Well, you see, she never coinning”
”Have you a mission or a church here in Norwich?”
”No, I don't believe in churches”