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A Ward of the Golden Gate

CHAPTER VII
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I think, too, in our long and pleasant pastoral relations, you have always found me mindful of it.

I admit I have sometimes regretted that your late husband had not more generally familiarized you with the ways of the world.

But so it is--we all have our weaknesses.

If not one thing, another.

And as Envy and Uncharitableness sometimes find their way in even Christian hearts, I should like you to undertake this office for the sake of example.
There are some, dear Sister Argalls, who think that the rich widow who is most liberal in the endowment of the goods that Providence has intrusted to her hands claims therefore to be exempt from labor in the Christian vineyard.


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