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Hetty Wesley

CHAPTER VIII
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I did not know her.
Some of the children are a little burnt, but not hurt or disfigured.

I only got a small blister on my hand.
The neighbours send us clothes, for it is cold without them.
The child (Kezzy) was born and lived.

The Rectory was rebuilt within a year, at a cost of 400 pounds.

The day after the fire, as he groped among the ruins in the garden, Mr.Wesley had picked up a torn leaf of his Polyglot Bible, on which these words alone were legible: _Vade; vende omnia quot habes; et attolle crucem, et sequere me_.
He had come to Epworth a poor man: and now, after fifteen years, he stood as poor as then; poorer, perhaps.

He had served his parishioners only to earn their detestation.


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