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Audrey, writing in a slow, fair, clerkly hand, made her period, and turned

to the Bishop's second question: "'Had you any other church before you

came to that which you now possess?'"

"'No, my Lord,'" said the : "I

came raw from the devil to this parish Audrey, hast ever heard children

say that Satan coh the forest?"

"Yes," said Audrey, "but their eyes are not good You go hand in hand"

Darden paused in the lifting of his tankard "Thy wits are brightening,

Audrey; but keep such observations to thyself It is only the schoolmaster

hom I walk Go on to the next question"

The Bishop desired to kno long theTheforward, laid it

off to his Lordship how that the vestries in Virginia did not incline to

havevery powerful, kept the poor servants

of the Church upon uneasy seats; but that he, Gideon Darden, had the love

of his flock, rich and poor, gentle and sientlemen of his vestry had been pleased to present