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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER SIX: The Rival Churches of St
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For the market of today this Bible"-- and he poised it again on his hand, as if to test its weight, "is too heavy.
The people of today want something lighter, something easier to get hold of.

Now if--" But what Mr.Furlong was about to say was lost forever to the world.
For just at this juncture something occurred calculated to divert not only Mr.Furlong's sentence, but the fortunes and the surplus of St.
Asaph's itself.

At the very moment when Mr.Furlong was speaking a newspaper delivery man in the street outside handed to the sanctified boy the office copy of the noonday paper.

And the boy had no sooner looked at its headlines than he said, "How dreadful!" Being sanctified, he had no stronger form of speech than that.

But he handed the paper forthwith to one of the stenographers with hair like the daffodils of Sheba, and when she looked at it she exclaimed, "How awful!" And she knocked at once at the door of the ancient clerk and gave the paper to him; and when he looked at it and saw the headline the ancient clerk murmured, "Ah!" in the gentle tone in which very old people greet the news of catastrophe or sudden death.
But in his turn he opened Mr.Furlong's door and put down the paper, laying his finger on the column for a moment without a word.
Mr.Furlong stopped short in his sentence.


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