[Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham]@TWC D-Link bookHyacinth CHAPTER II 9/26
"I've called you Bob," says she, very red in the face, "and you've called me Maimie ever since we went to Sunday-school together, and I'm not going to begin calling you Mr.Banks now, my boy-o! so don't you think it!"' It was a relief to Hyacinth when he was tapped on the arm by a boy with a very pimply face, who thrust a paper into his hand, and distracted his attention from the final discomfiture of Maimie, which Mr.Banks was recounting in a clear, high-pitched voice, as if he wished everyone in the neighbourhood to hear it. 'I hope you'll come,' said the boy. 'Where ?' 'It's all in the paper.
The students' prayer-meeting, held every Wednesday morning at nine o'clock sharp.
Special meeting to-morrow.' Hyacinth was bewildered.
There was something quite unfamiliar in this prompt and business-like advertisement of prayer.
The student with the papers began to be doubtful of him. 'You're not High Church, are you ?' he asked.
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