He ai n't that far gone exactly -- few men is , I reckon -- but he 's what you might call a heretic . Heretics are wicked , but they 're mighty int ` resting . It 's jest that they 've got sorter lost looking for God , being under the impression that He 's hard to find -- which He ai n't never . Most of 'em blunder to Him after awhile , I guess . I do n't think listening to Mr. Howard 's arguments is likely to do me much harm . Mind you , I believe what I was brought up to believe . It saves a vast of bother -- and back of it all , God is good . The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he 's a leetle TOO clever . He thinks that he 's bound to live up to his cleverness , and that it 's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common , ignorant folks is travelling . But he 'll get there sometime all right , and then he 'll laugh at himself . '' `` Mr. Howard was a Methodist to begin with , '' said Miss Cornelia , as if she thought he had not far to go from that to heresy . `` Do you know , Cornelia , '' said Captain Jim gravely , `` I 've often thought that if I was n't a Presbyterian I 'd be a Methodist . '' `` Oh , well , '' conceded Miss Cornelia , `` if you were n't a Presbyterian it would n't matter much what you were . Speaking of heresy , reminds me , doctor -- I 've brought back that book you lent me -- that Natural Law in the Spiritual World -- I did n't read more 'n a third of it . I can read sense , and I can read nonsense , but that book is neither the one nor the other . '' `` It IS considered rather heretical in some quarters , '' admitted Gilbert , `` but I told you that before you took it , Miss Cornelia . '' `` Oh , I would n't have minded its being heretical . I can stand wickedness , but I ca n't stand foolishness , '' said Miss Cornelia calmly , and with the air of having said the last thing there was to say about Natural Law . `` Speaking of books , A Mad Love come to an end at last two weeks ago , '' remarked Captain Jim musingly . `` It run to one hundred and three chapters .
When they got married the book stopped XXXXX off , so I reckon their troubles were all over .
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