"
"His personal piety would have weight."
"Undoubtedly."
There was a pause, and Mrs. Broad then continued:
"Well, my dear, you know best; but what about Fanny? I shall not ask
her again. How very forward, and indeed altogether"--Another
stoppage, another twitch at her gown, with another fidget on the
chair, the eyes going up to Dr. Flavel's bands as before. "In OUR
house too--to put herself in Thomas's way!"
Ah! Mrs. Broad, are you sure Thomas did not go out of his way--even
in your house, that eminently respectable, eminently orthodox
residence--even Thomas, your Samuel, who had been granted to the
Lord, and who, to use his own words when his written religious
autobiography was read at the church-meeting, being the child of
pious parents, and of many prayers, had never been exposed to those
assaults of the enemy of souls which beset ordinary young men, and
consequently had not undergone a sudden conversion?
"But," observed Mr. Broad, leaning back in his easy-chair, and half
covering his face with his great broad, fat hand, "we shall offend
the Allens if Fanny does not come, and we shall injure the cause."
"Has George Allen, Fanny's brother, prayed at the prayer-meeting yet?
He was admitted two months ago.
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