“Justin must be making money fast out West!  He put ten dollars in the contribution plate a-Sunday, and paid the minister ten more next day for marryin’ him to Nancy; so the Peabody luck has turned at last!” which, as a matter of fact, it had.

“And all the time,” said the chairman of the carpet committee to the treasurer of the Dorcas Society—­“all the time, little as she realized it, Nancy was laying the carpet in her own pew.  Now she’s married to Justin she’ll be the makin’ of him, or I miss my guess.  You can’t do a thing with men folks without they’re right alongside where you can keep your eye and hand on ’em.  Justin’s handsome and good and stiddy; all he need is some nice woman to put starch into him.  The Edgewood Peabodys never had a mite o’ stiffenin’ in ’em,—­limp as dishrags, every blessed one!  Nancy Wentworth fairly rustles with starch.  Justin hadn’t been engaged to her but a few hours when they walked up the aisle together, but did you notice the way he carried his head?  I declare I thought ’t would fall off behind!  I shouldn’t wonder a mite but they prospered and come back every summer to set in the old Peabody Pew.”

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