Chief-Justice Lynch is a sacred authority in those parts;
and, in such a case as his, Alfred Stevsns did not doubt that the
church itself would feel it only becoming to provide another sort
of garment for the offender, which, whether pleasant or not, would
at least be likely to stick more closely, and prove less comfortably
warm.
But, once in, there was no help but to play out the game as it had
been begun. Villagers are seldom very sagacious people, and elegant
strangers are quite too much esteemed among them to make them very
particular in knowing tho whys and wherefores about them--whence
they come, what they do, and whither they propose to go. Stevens
had only to preserve his countenance and a due degree of caution,
and the rest was easy. He had no reason to suppose himself an object
of suspicion to anybody; and should he become so, nothing was more
easy than to take his departure with sufficient promptness, and
without unnecessarily soliciting the prayers of the church in behalf
of the hurried traveller! At all events, he could lose nothing by
the visit: perhaps something might be gained.
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