Borrud ten dollars o' me t'other day." Well, thought Milton, whatever his real motive is, Elder Pill is earning all he gets.

Standing for two or three hours in his place night after night, arguing, pleading, but mainly commanding them to be saved.
Milton was describing the scenes of the meeting to Bradley Talcott and Douglas Radbourn the next day, and Radbourn, a young law student said: "I'd like to see him.

He must be a character." "Let's make up a party and go out," said Milton, eagerly.
"All right; I'll speak to Lily Graham." Accordingly, that evening a party of students, in a large sleigh, drove out toward the school-house, along the drifted lanes and through the beautiful aisles of the snowy woods.

A merry party of young people, who had no sense of sin to weigh them down.

Even Radbourn and Lily joined in the songs which they sang to the swift clanging of the bells, until the lights of the school-house burned redly through the frosty air.
Not a few of the older people present felt scandalized by the singing and by the dancing of the "town girls," who could not for the life of them take the thing seriously.