Then a sharp-eyed inspector from London discovered that the schoolmaster took very little trouble about teaching, but displayed great talent in prompting his children at examinations.

He, too, was dismissed, and the committee, still bent on economy, appointed a mistress in his place.

She was a pretty girl, and after she had shivered through the stormy nights of two winters in the lonely school-house, Mr.Conneally married her.
Afterwards the office of school-teacher was also left vacant.

The whitewashed school fell gradually into decay, and the committee effected a further saving.
After his marriage Mr.Conneally's missionary enthusiasm began to flag.
His contact with womanhood humanized him.

The sternness of the reformer died in him, and his neighbours, who never could comprehend his religion, came to understand the man.