[Louis’ School Days by E. J. May]@TWC D-Link bookLouis’ School Days CHAPTER XI 11/15
They had a great scramble through the hilly district that surrounded Heronhurst, and merrily the talk (we will not dignify it by the name of conversation) continued. As they re-entered the grounds it fell upon the scheme of visiting the church, and during the light and common-place discussion that ensued, it struck Louis that there might be something wrong in the plan.
He became very silent, and when he reached his room, quietly thought over the matter, and came to the conclusion that, though they intended going to church, yet the motives that induced their doing so were not to the glory of God, and that to employ servants for such an end, on God's holy day, was certainly wrong.
This was his first impression; and when he next saw Reginald, he told him what he had been thinking of. "Well, but Louis, you know it won't make any difference whether we go or not, and so _we_ shan't engage the servants.
I don't see why, because you like nice singing, you should go to the chapel where they screech so abominably." Louis was silent, for he hardly liked to oppose his reasons to Reginald's blunt speech, and Reginald, dismissing the subject from his mind, began to talk of something else.
He ran on very volubly for a little while, without receiving any interruption from his brother, and, looking at him, he saw very plainly that Louis was not paying the slightest attention to him. "What is the matter, Louis? How dull you are!" "Nothing," replied Louis. "Nothing ?" repeated Reginald; "_Something_, you ought to say.
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