"I must set a better watch over my thoughts lest they betray me!" he
reflected; thus resolving to conceal himself yet more carefully from the
one man in the place who would have cut for him the snare of the fowler.
"I was ower hasty wi' 'im!" concluded the soutar on his part. "But I think
the truth has some grup o' 'im. His conscience is waukin up, I fancy, and
growlin a bit; and whaur that tyke has ance taen haud, he's no ready to
lowsen or lat gang! We maun jist lie quaiet a bit, and see! His hoor 'ill
come!"
The minister being one who turned pale when angry, walked home with a face
of such corpse-like whiteness, that a woman who met him said to herself,
"What can ail the minister, bonny laad! He's luikin as scared as a corp! I
doobt that fule body the soutar's been angerin him wi' his havers!"
The first thing he did when he reached the manse, was to turn,
nevertheless, to the chapter and verse in the epistle to the Romans, which
the soutar had indicated, and which, through all his irritation, had,
strangely enough, remained unsmudged in his memory; but the passage
suggested nothing, alas! out of which he could fabricate a sermon.
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