[The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr.]@TWC D-Link book
The Guardian Angel

CHAPTER IV
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Myrtle Hazard ought to have it.

If the girl had only inherited that property--whew?
She'd have been a match for any fellow.

That old Silence Withers would do just as her minister told her,--even chance whether she gives it to the Parson-factory, or marries Bellamy Stoker, and gives it to him after his wife's dead.

He'd take it if he had to take her with it.

Earn his money, hey, Master Gridley ?" "Why, you don't seem to think very well of the Rev.Joseph Bellamy Stoker ?" said Mr.Gridley, smiling.
"Think well of him?
Too fond of using the Devil's pitchfork for my fancy! Forks over pretty much all the world but himself and his lot into--the bad place, you know; and toasts his own cheese with it with very much the same kind of comfort that other folks seem to take in that business.


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