Arminell, Vol. 1
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Baring-Gould Sabine. Arminell, Vol. 1
CHAPTER I. SUNDAY SCHOOL
CHAPTER II. A FOLLOWER
CHAPTER III. IN THE OWL’S NEST
CHAPTER IV. A PRAYER-RAFT
CHAPTER V. INFECTION
CHAPTER VI. CHILLACOT
CHAPTER VII. A VISION
CHAPTER VIII. ABREAST
CHAPTER IX. TANDEM
CHAPTER X “SABINA GREEN.”
CHAPTER XI. IN THE AVENUE
CHAPTER XII. SINTRAM
CHAPTER XIII. THE PRIVILEGED CLASS
CHAPTER XIV. MR. JAMES WELSH
CHAPTER XV. REVELATIONS
CHAPTER XVI. HOW SALTREN TOOK IT
CHAPTER XVII. HOW JINGLES TOOK IT
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW ARMINELL TOOK IT
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The church bells were ringing, the Sunday-school had at last been reduced to order, arranged in line, and wriggled, sinuous, worm-like, along the road and up the avenue to the church porch. Lady Lamerton, brandishing her sunshade as a field-marshal’s baton, kept the children in place, and directed the head of the procession.
Some sobbed because they had crumpled their gowns, one boy howled because in stooping he had ruptured his nether garments, Joan Ball had broken the feather in her hat, and revenged herself on her neighbour by a stab of pin. One child strewed its tongue with comfits, and when Lady Lamerton did not observe, exposed its tongue to the rest of the children to excite their envy. Another was engaged in wiping out of its eyes the soapy water that in the scuffle had been squirted into them.
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“Because Giles has a cold, and I stay at my lady’s desire to read the psalms and lessons to him.”
“I wonder whether schooling Giles is as intolerable as taking Sunday class; if it be, you have my grateful sympathy.”
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