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The Ship of Stars

CHAPTER XXI
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I do not think you are fitted for the priesthood; but my doubts have nothing to do with your doubts, which I don't understand, though you tried to explain them so carefully.
You will come through _them_, I expect.

I don't know that I have any reasons that could be put on paper: only, somehow, I cannot _see_ you in a black coat and clerical hat." "You complain that I never write about George.

You don't deserve to hear, since you refuse to come to our wedding.
But would _you_ talk, if you happened to be in love?
There, I have told you more than ever I told George, whose conceit has to be kept down.

Let this console you." "Our new parson, when he comes, is to lodge down in Innis Village.

Your mother--but no doubt she has told you--stays in the Parsonage while she pleases.


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