Then Saul shook hands with his repentant son, solemnly, and
producing a well-worn catechism from his tail pocket, placed it with
reverence in the shaken hand. Looking upon Tryphosa, he remarked:
"Remember, Timotheus, the words of wisdom, 'Favour is deceitful and
beauty is vain, but whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.' Go thou
and do likewise, Amen." Further improvement of the occasion was checked
by the arrival of a well-laden waggon, driven by Rufus, and containing
his parents, Christie Hislop, Mr. Bigglethorpe and Ben. Mr. Bigglethorpe
was hailed with delight by Marjorie, who immediately carried off "dear
Mr. Biggles" to see the creek, and tell her about his little boy, who
was not yet christened, because, in the face of Marjorie's opposition,
he could not call him Walton, Cotton or Piscator, and he could not think
of any other name. She had objected to Felix as too catty like, and
Isadore she had said was as bad as Is-a-window. However, he enjoyed the
creek for a few minutes before dinner. Mrs. Hill was installed as the
mother of the kitchen. With her great conversational powers and large
knowledge of scripture, she rather overawed father Pilgrim, and her own
and her husband's abundant cheerfulness revived a company, ready to
droop under the austerities of Saul's genuine but unpleasant religion.
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