[Audrey by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookAudrey CHAPTER III 14/20
You can't but have heard of Darden? A minister of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, sir; and a scandal, a shame, and a stumbling-block to the Church! A foul-mouthed, brawling, learned sot! A stranger to good works, but a frequenter of tippling houses! A brazen, dissembling, atheistical Demas, who will neither let go of the lusts of the flesh nor of his parish,--a sweet-scented parish, sir, with the best glebe in three counties! And he's inducted, sir, inducted, which is more than most of the clergy of Virginia, who neither fight nor drink nor swear, can say for themselves!" The minister had lost his gravity, and spoke with warmth and bitterness. As he paused for breath, Mistress Evelyn took her eyes from the group of those about to run and opened her fan.
"A careless father, at least," she said.
"If he hath learning, he should know better than to set his daughter there." "She's not his own, ma'am.
She's an orphan, bound to Darden and his wife, I suppose.
There's some story or other about her, but, not being curious in Mr.Darden's affairs, I have never learned it.
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