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    1. There is a story (probably apocryphal) that one night there was a knock on the door of a certain Scottish manse


    2. To be fair, many ministers and their families, suddenly without church, manse and stipend in 1843 did suffer very considerable privation


    3. Mary had not instilled any poison of the kind Miss Cornelia had feared into the manse children's minds


    4. But she slept dreamlessly, while Una lay awake and the rain fell and the wind wailed around the old gray manse


    5. Mary and folks asked each other seriously what was to be done with those manse youngsters


    6. Just think what a scandal it will make!" A scandal it assuredly did make, growing more scandalous as it spread, until the over-harbour people heard that the manse children had not only cleaned house and put out a washing on Sunday, but had wound up with an afternoon picnic in the graveyard while the Methodist Sunday School was going on


    7. The only household which remained in blissful ignorance of the terrible thing was the manse itself; on what Faith and Una fondly believed to be Tuesday it rained again; for the next three days it rained; nobody came near the manse; the manse folk went nowhere; they might have waded through the misty Rainbow Valley up to Ingleside, but all the Blythe family, save Susan and the doctor, were away on a visit to Avonlea


    8. Sunshine returned to the world; Carl was well and Aunt Martha's misery left her as suddenly as it had come; the butcher called at the manse and chased famine away


    9. To crown all, the Blythes returned home, and that evening they and the manse children and Mary Vance kept sunset tryst once more in Rainbow Valley, where the daisies were floating upon the grass like spirits of the dew and the bells on the Tree Lovers rang like fairy chimes in the scented twilight


    10. Suddenly Faith Meredith rose in the manse pew, walked up to the pulpit platform, and faced the amazed audience

    11. Una's little pearl-pure face gleamed up at her beseechingly from the manse pew


    12. The pigs in question were two tall, lank animals, supposed to belong to Bertie Shakespeare Drew's father, which had been haunting the roadside by the manse for a couple of weeks


    13. How hungry for love and fun I was--an unloved little drudge with never a chance to play! They do have such good times with the manse children


    14. The manse and Ingleside children knew, of course, as they knew everything else about the magic valley


    15. When he reached the manse he went to his study and took down a bulky volume in order to see which had been right, he or Ellen


    16. A young couple came to the manse to be married and Mr


    17. She had come to the manse to propose a certain thing to the minister and she meant to lose no time in proposing it


    18. Her little heart had been wrung when they had left Maywater--she had shed many bitter tears when she parted with Maywater chums and the old manse there where her mother had lived and died


    19. He gave Faith an exciting drive home, behind his wild two-year old, and when he had let her out at the kitchen door of the manse and dumped his cargo on the back veranda he drove away shouting,


    20. A fox was barking across the pond; an engine was puffing down at the Glen station; a blue-jay was screaming madly in the maple grove; there was laughter over on the manse lawn

    21. I called at the manse before I came here and got quite warm--though I had to go to the kitchen to do it, for there was no fire anywhere else


    22. Elliott had sent up to the manse on an errand, came tripping down Rainbow Valley on her way to Ingleside where she was to spend the afternoon with Nan and Di as a Saturday treat


    23. Nan and Di had been picking spruce gum with Faith and Una in the manse woods and the four of them were now sitting on a fallen pine by the brook, all, it must be admitted, chewing rather vigorously


    24. It had been only the glamour of the manse that had temporarily blinded Emmeline's eyes to the better part


    25. But they needed something more, and that something would be supplied when he brought Rosemary West as a bride to the old manse


    26. There was a light in the manse study


    27. Elliott had sent her up to the manse with some new-laid eggs, and had told her not to stay longer than half an hour


    28. The manse children did not feel like talking


    29. Elliott says it is, She says manse children have no business to go anywhere but to Presbyterian things


    30. Fifteen minutes later the document was solemnly signed on Hezekiah Pollock's tombstone, on the centre of which stood the smoky manse lantern, while the children knelt around it

    31. Elder Clow was going past at the moment and next day all the Glen heard that the manse children had been having another praying competition and had wound it up by chasing each other all over the graves with a lantern


    32. The others had gone quietly into the manse and to bed


    33. Not once did any of the manse children set the Glen gossips by the ears


    34. Baker from over-harbour should have chosen that evening for calling at the manse, and that Faith should have happened to go to the door


    35. It had been a cold, raw, wet day of spring storm and Rainbow Valley was out of the question for girls, though the manse and the Ingleside boys were down there fishing


    36. Lida Marsh, who had come up to bring the manse a mess of herring, slipped in through the gate shivering


    37. She belonged to the fishing village at the harbour mouth and her father had, for thirty years, made a practice of sending a mess from his first spring catch to the manse


    38. He never darkened a church door; he was a hard drinker and a reckless man, but as long as he sent those herring up to the manse every spring, as his father had done before him, he felt comfortably sure that his account with the Powers That Govern was squared for the year


    39. To-night, as she sidled boldly enough up to the manse girls, she looked as if she had never been warm since she was born


    40. Very soon the Glen heard that the manse children had been having an awful fight in the graveyard and using most improper language

    41. Faith and Carl sat alone in the manse pew


    42. The gallery especially, where irresponsible lads congregated and were known to whisper and suspected of chewing tobacco during service, was no place, for a son of the manse


    43. But Jerry hated the manse pew at the very top of the church, under the eyes of Elder Clow and his family


    44. She got on the hated striped stockings before Jerry and Una arrived, so that for the time being none of the occupants of the manse knew what she had done


    45. There was no use worrying over the manse fry any longer


    46. "I don't know how it is, but just as sure as those manse children do something especially awful the church is sure to be crowded with Methodists


    47. But that hateful old Kitty Alec says Faith has never been the same girl since that time I stayed in the manse


    48. Miss Cornelia had vowed that she was done with worrying over the pranks of the manse children, but she went on worrying just the same


    49. Meredith was going to see Rosemary West I did hope the manse would soon have a proper mistress


    50. and the Girls Sewing Society, and include in the audience all and any Methodists who have been criticizing the Merediths--although I do think if we Presbyterians stopped criticizing and excusing we would find that other denominations would trouble themselves very little about our manse folks





















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