THE STEADFAST HEART
she said chokingly, “I guess they don’t want us here. Come on, Jimmy.”
“I won’t,” Jimmy muttered. “I won't go walkin’ out beside him.”
Mary passed down the aisle holding Angus’s frightened hand, and out of the church. As she stepped through the door a hubbub broke out behind her which could not be curbed…. It is doubtful if that day’s lesson was of profit either to pupils or to teachers…. It was a lesson which burned deep into Angus Burke’s soul, and perhaps was not without its benefit to him. Malcolm Crane alone felt that there had been something of success in it.
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