MacPhun's
moderatorship _pro tem_. Monday was a day of trunk packing and other
preparations, connected with all sorts of boxes and parcels brought by
the stage during the previous week. The next day the guests arrived. Dr.
Halbert came first, excusing his early appearance by saying he felt
lonely, and wanted to see young faces again. Then the Captain drove up
in grand style, having on board Mrs. Thomas, her domestic, Malvina
McGlashan, Sylvanus, and his strict parent, Saul. Malvina was received
by the maids with great effusion, while the paternal Pilgrim eyed
Timotheus, who had come forward to shake hands with his father. "What is
the chief end of man, Timotheus?" The son answered correctly. "What is
sin?" was appropriately solved, and "What is the reason annexed to the
fifth commandment?" Then came, "What is repentance unto life," and on
the answer to this Mr. Pilgrim preached a brief homily. "With grief and
hatred of his sin, turns from it, with full purpose of, and endeavour
after, new obedience. Is that you, Timotheus?" "Yes, fayther."
"Young women," said Saul, addressing the maids, "has the walk and
conversation of Timotheus been according to his lights, or according to
his whilom lammentable and ungodly profession?"
Tryphena could not reply, for the audacious Sylvanus, unaffected by the
propinquity of his venerable relative, had whispered in her ear, "he's a
livyer' 'cordin' to his lights, he is;" but Tryphosa spoke up and said
that nobody, not even a minister, could have behaved better than
Timotheus.
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