With quick contrition she whispered , `` There , never mind , David . I ought n't to have spoken to you so . You know your duty best . Let 's go in . '' `` Wait . '' His voice was imploring . `` Mary , is it true that Mollie wo n't come out because of me ? Am I standing in my child 's light ? '' `` I -- do n't -- know . I guess not . Mollie 's just a foolish young girl yet . Never mind -- come in . '' He followed her dejectedly in , and up the aisle to their pew in the center of the church . The building was warm and crowded . The pastor was reading the Bible lesson for the evening . In the choir , behind him , David Bell saw Mollie 's girlish face , tinged with a troubled seriousness . His own wind-ruddy face and bushy gray eyebrows worked convulsively with his inward throes . A sigh that was almost a groan burst from him . `` I 'll have to do it , '' he said to himself in agony . When several more hymns had been sung , and late arrivals began to pack the aisles , the evangelist arose .
His style for the XXXXX was the tender , the pleading , the solemn .
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