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The Virginians

CHAPTER XV
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"He has assaulted the Philistines in great force." "Beautiful, beautiful!" says Harry.
"Bet five to four it was his Assize sermon.

He has been over to Winton to preach, and to see those dogs," cries William.
The organist had played the little congregation out into the sunshine.
Only Sir Francis Esmond, temp.Jac.

I., still knelt on his marble hassock, before his prayer-book of stone.

Mr.Sampson came out of his vestry in his cassock, and nodded to the gentlemen still lingering in the great pew.
"Come up, and tell us about those dogs," says Mr.William, and the divine nodded a laughing assent.
The gentlemen passed out of the church into the gallery of their house, which connected them with that sacred building.

Mr.Sampson made his way through the court, and presently joined them.


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