"John," she said, "that church is enough to give any woman her death.

I won't go there any more." "They don't understand warming a church in the country," said John apologetically.
"Is it not a little too large for the congregation ?" asked the Senator.
The church was large and straggling and ill arranged, and on this particular Sunday had been almost empty.

There was in it an harmonium which Mrs.Puttock played when she was at home, but in her absence the attempt made by a few rustics to sing the hymns had not been a musical success.

The whole affair had been very sad, and so the Paragon had felt it who knew,--and was remembering through the whole service,--how these things are done in transatlantic cities.
"The weather kept the people away I suppose," said Morton.
"Does that gentleman generally draw large congregations ?" asked the persistent Senator.
"We don't go in for drawing congregations here." Under the cross-examination of his guest the Secretary of Legation almost lost his diplomatic good temper.

"We have a church in every parish for those who choose to attend it." "And very few do choose," said the Senator.