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The Golden Road

CHAPTER XXI
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Then she suddenly got on her feet.
"This is too dull for me," she exclaimed.

"I want something more exciting." Mr.Davidson stopped short and Peg marched down the aisle in the midst of complete silence.

Half way down the aisle she turned around and faced the minister.
"There are so many hypocrites in this church that it isn't fit for decent people to come to," she said.

"Rather than be such hypocrites as most of you are it would be better for you to go miles into the woods and commit suicide." Wheeling about, she strode to the door.

Then she turned for a Parthian shot.
"I've felt kind of worried for God sometimes, seeing He has so much to attend to," she said, "but I see I needn't be, so long's there's plenty of ministers to tell Him what to do." With that Peg shook the dust of Carlisle church from her feet.


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