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When John Campbell returned, he found Mary still in the parlor She was

playing some noisy, mechanical "variation," whose rapid execution was a

physical vent for her chagrin and disappoint for hot water, brewed his toddy, and affected the greatest interest

in the kirk

had been to consider whether John Caan, and her

own offer of her services as organist, could be accepted by the church

"It was hopeless from the first," said Campbell with a queer smile; "every

shepherd in Bute was there to protest You would have thought I had

proposed a Popish Mass Book, or at least an Episcopal Litany There will

be no 'eneration, Mary And, would you

believe it, the an in the choir?"

"I was always uncertain about him I never could interest him in the

subject He would listen, and shake his head, or say, 'just so, sir,' or

refer to a session in which all could say the word in their heart; and so

on To-night, after an opening prayer, in which he took the liberty to