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Keziah Coffin

CHAPTER XI
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I warn you--" "Hush! Shut up! Can't you forget that--that Come-Outer circus of yours for a minute ?" "Elkanah Daniels, I'll have no blasphemy here.

Another word like that and--" "WILL you be still and hear me?
The Lord's business! I guess you'll think it's the Lord's business when you understand what I'm going to tell you! The Lord's business! The devil's business, you better say! Will you lock that door ?" "My church is waitin' for me and--" "Let it wait.

What's a parcel of yelling Come-Outers compared to the decency of this town?
Stop! Shut up! Eben Hammond, I tell you that your precious church--yes and mine, the Regular church of Trumet--will go to rack and ruin if you and me don't pull together this night." "And I tell you, Elkanah Daniels, I'll have no blasphemy here.

That little sanctuary up the road is founded on a rock and neither you nor any of your Phariseein' priest-worshipin' crew can shake it.

The Almighty'll protect His own.


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