Playing With Fire

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Barr Amelia E.. Playing With Fire

CHAPTER I. THE MINISTER'S FAMILY

CHAPTER II. LORD RICHARD CRAMER

CHAPTER III. DONALD PLEASES HIS FATHER

CHAPTER IV. THE GREAT TEMPTATION

CHAPTER V. THE MINISTER IN LOVE

CHAPTER VI. DONALD TAKES HIS OWN WAY

CHAPTER VII. MARION DECIDES

CHAPTER VIII. MACRAE LEARNS A HARD LESSON

CHAPTER IX. WHEN WILL THE NIGHT BE PAST?

CHAPTER X. A DREAM

CHAPTER XI. LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW

CHAPTER XII. AFTERWARD

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It was the Sabbath, and all its surroundings were steeped in that wonderful Sabbath stillness that not even great cities are without. The servants had put on with their kirk gowns the quiet movements they kept for this day, and, as they noiselessly prepared the breakfast, they talked softly to each other in monosyllables. Marion was used to this formality, and indeed was herself involuntarily affected by it. She stood hesitating on the doorsteps about a walk in the garden. Her feet longed for the soft lawns and the flowery paths, but she had not escaped the Sabbath thraldom of her house and native city.

"It might be wrong," she mused, "perhaps I ought to go to God's house and honor Him before all else. I must ask Aunt Jessy."

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"Books that many are reading with an amazing interest, Jessy; and which I have long thought of examining. Huxley and Darwin's works, poor Hugh Miller's 'Investigations,' Bishop Colenso's 'Misconceptions,' Schopenhauer and others – "

"Ian, do not open one of them. There is your Bible. Don't you read a word against it. In a spiritual sense, it is the sun that warms, and the bread that feeds you."

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