He had no desire to fall a second time into the hands of an avenging militarist . Norman turned to the platform for one graceless , triumphant moment . `` Do n't look so flabbergasted , parsons , '' he boomed . `` You could n't do it -- nobody would expect it of the cloth -- but somebody had to do it . You know you 're glad I threw him out -- he could n't be let go on yammering and yodelling and yawping sedition and treason . Sedition and treason -- somebody had to deal with it . I was born for this hour -- I 've had my innings in church at last . I can sit quiet for another sixty years now ! Go ahead with your meeting , parsons . I reckon you wo n't be troubled with any more pacifist prayers . '' But the spirit of devotion and reverence had fled . Both ministers realized it and realized that the only thing to do was to close the meeting quietly and let the excited people go . Mr. Meredith addressed a few earnest words to the boys in khaki -- which probably saved Mr. Pryor 's windows from a second onslaught -- and Mr. Arnold pronounced an incongruous benediction , at least he felt it was incongruous , for he could not at once banish from his memory the sight of gigantic Norman Douglas shaking the fat , pompous little Whiskers-on-the-moon as a huge mastiff might shake an overgrown puppy . And he knew that the same picture was in everybody 's mind . Altogether the union prayer-meeting could hardly be called an unqualified success . But it was remembered in Glen St. Mary when scores of orthodox and undisturbed assemblies were totally forgotten . `` You will never , no , never , Mrs. Dr. dear , hear me call Norman Douglas a pagan again , '' said Susan when she reached home . `` If Ellen Douglas is not a proud woman this night she should be . '' `` Norman Douglas did a wholly indefensible thing , '' said the doctor . `` Pryor should have been let severely alone until the meeting was over .
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