`` He says Martin ca n't call his soul his own since he was married . '' `` I 'm glad of it , '' said Cecily vindictively . We all stared . This was so very unlike Cecily . `` Martin Forbes is the brother of a horrid man in Summerside who called me Johnny , that 's why , '' she explained . `` He was visiting here with his wife two years ago , and he called me Johnny every time he spoke to me . Just you fancy ! I 'll NEVER forgive him . '' `` That is n't a Christian spirit , '' said Felicity rebukingly . `` I do n't care . Would YOU forgive James Forbes if he had called YOU Johnny ? '' demanded Cecily . `` I know a story about Martin Forbes ' grandfather , '' said the Story Girl . `` Long ago they did n't have any choir in the Carlisle church -- just a precentor you know . But at last they got a choir , and Andrew McPherson was to sing bass in it . Old Mr. Forbes had n't gone to church for years , because he was so rheumatic , but he went the first Sunday the choir sang , because he had never heard any one sing bass , and wanted to hear what it was like . Grandfather King asked him what he thought of the choir . Mr. Forbes said it was ` verra guid , ' but as for Andrew 's bass , ` there was nae bass aboot it -- it was just a bur-r-r-r the hale time . ' '' If you could have heard the Story Girl 's `` bur-r-r-r ! '' Not old Mr. Forbes himself could have invested it with more of Doric scorn .
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