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Then the business of the afternoon began, and Helena sat and listened

to it It was a scene which had repeated itself for two generations in

Old Chester; the fathers and mothers of these little people had sat on

these same narrow benches without backs, and looked at the blackboard

where Dr Lavendar wrote out the divisions of the Collect, and then

looked at the sideboard, where stood a dish of apples and another of

ju, in singsong

chorus that they heartily thanked their Heavenly Father that He had

called them to this state of salvation; and Dr Lavendar had asked one

or another of them, as he now asked their children, "What meanest thou

by this word Sacrarace?"

That afternoon, when he swooped down on David, Helen squeezed her

hands together with anxiety; did he knoas the inward and

spiritual grace? Could he say it? She held her breath until he had

sailed triuhteousness," and so

on When he had finished, she looked proudly at Dr Lavendar, who, to

her astonishle word of praise!

"And yet," said Helena to herself, "he said it better than any of