Thereupon the silk
mercer concluded that he must have money, and, kind man as he was,
grew kinder in consequence, and congratulated him on his independence.
"I depend more on the fewness of my wants than on any earthly store
for supplying them," said the dominie.
Marshal's thermometer fell a little, but not his anxiety to secure
services which, he insisted, would be for the glory of God and the
everlasting good of perishing souls. The schoolmaster only smiled
queerly and held his peace.
He consented, however, to preach the next Sunday, and on the
Monday, consented to preach the next again. For several weeks the
same thing occurred. But he would never promise on a Sunday, or
allow the briefest advertisement to be given concerning him. All
said he was feeling his way.
Neither had he, up to this time, said a word to Malcolm about the
manner in which his Sundays were employed, while yet he talked much
about a school he had opened in a room occupied in the evenings
by a debating club, where he was teaching such children of small
shopkeepers and artisans as found their way to him--in part through
his connection with the chapel folk. When Malcolm had called on a
Sunday, his landlady had been able to tell him nothing more than that
Mr Graham had gone out at such and such an hour--she presumed to
church; and when he had once or twice expressed a wish to accompany
him wherever he went to worship, Mr Graham had managed somehow to
let him go without having made any arrangement for his doing so.
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