[My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell]@TWC D-Link bookMy Lady Ludlow CHAPTER X 2/25
I am come to find her my mother's letters, for I should like to have a fair copy made of them.
O, here they are: don't trouble yourself, my dear child." When my lady returned again, she sat down and began to talk of Mr.Gray. "Miss Galindo says she saw him going to hold a prayer-meeting in a cottage.
Now that really makes me unhappy, it is so like what Mr.Wesley used to do in my younger days; and since then we have had rebellion in the American colonies and the French Revolution.
You may depend upon it, my dear, making religion and education common--vulgarising them, as it were--is a bad thing for a nation.
A man who hears prayers read in the cottage where he has just supped on bread and bacon, forgets the respect due to a church: he begins to think that one place is as good as another, and, by-and-by, that one person is as good as another; and after that, I always find that people begin to talk of their rights, instead of thinking of their duties.
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