[The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookThe Guardian Angel CHAPTER III 12/23
The first great preliminary process, so soon as the child manifested any evidence of intelligent and persistent self-determination, was to break her will. There is no doubt that this was a legitimate conclusion from the teaching of Priest Pemberton, but it required a colder and harder nature than his own to carry out many of his dogmas to their practical application.
He wrought in the pure mathematics, so to speak, of theology, and left the working rules to the good sense and good feeling of his people. Miss Silence had been waiting for her opportunity to apply the great doctrine, and it came at last in a very trivial way. "Myrtle does n't want brown bread.
Myrtle won't have brown bread.
Myrtle will have white bread." "Myrtle is a wicked child.
She will have what Aunt Silence says she shall have.
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