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Samantha at the World’s Fair

CHAPTER VI
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go to Chicago if the Fair is open Sundays, not for a world full of gold.

For," sez she, "I feel as if it would be the ruin of him." And then sister Arvilly Lanfear (she is always on the contrary side), sez she--"Why ?" "Why ?" sez Miss Cork.

"You ask why?
You a woman and a perfessor ?" "Yes," sez Arvilly--"why ?" Sez Miss Cork, "It would take away all his reverence for the Sabbath, and the God who appointed that holy day of rest.

His morals would be all broke up, and he would be a ruined boy.

I expect that he will be there two months--that would make eight days of worldliness and wickedness; and I feel that long enough before the eighth day had come his principles would be underminded, and his morals all tottered and broke down." "Why ?" sez Arvilly.


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