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But the Sabbath passed, and he ree did not produce it

It was one of Mr Growther's peculiarities to have a fire upon the hearth even when the evenings were so warit ourselves used to heat," he would grohen Haldane re service they both lowered at the fire for some time in silence

"Except ye be converted, and becodom of heaven," had been Dr Barstow's text; and, as is usually the case, the necessity of conversion had been made clearer than just what conversion is; and many more than the disquieted occupants of the quaint old kitchen had been sent home sorely perplexed how to set about the si for all that they had been awakened to the fact that so must be done After that ser decorous, well-dressed worshippers at St Paul's would be all that was required

But Mr Growther needed no argu believed that his only chance was, as he expressed it, "such an out-and-out shakin' to pieces, and in that I wouldn't know s despondently and add, "But ot as stiff and dry as these old walkin' pins; and when I try to git up soood sort o' feelin' it's like pumpin' of a dry pump I only feel real hearty when I' had awakened anew in his breast, as truly as in Haldane's, the wish that he could be converted, whatever that blessed and ht be; and so, with his wrinkled face seamed with deeper and more complex lines than usual, the poor old soul stared at the fire, which was at once the chief source of his comfort and the emblem of that which he most dreaded At last he snarled: "I'ittin' all riled up so Here, I haven't had a coht with nothin' runnin' in my head but 'Except ye be convarted, except ye be convarted'; I wish I had as good a chance of bein' convarted as I have of bein' struck by lightnin'"

"I wish I needed conversion as little as you," said Haldane despondently

"Now look here," snapped the old ht I want you to know I never have been convarted, and I can prove it to you plaguy quick if you stroke e of h you have been a hard cuss; for you are young and kind o' lied youth, his ed, and in a tone that was meant to be kindly he added, "There, there! Why don't you pluck up heart? If I was as young as you be, I'd get convarted if it took me all summer"