`` Uncle Alec says that Uncle Edward says that heads are beginning to go out of fashion , '' I said defiantly -- all the more defiantly that I felt I should have had heads in my sermon . It would doubtless have made a much deeper impression . But the truth was I had forgotten all about such things . `` Well , I 'm going to have them , and I do n't care if they are unfashionable , '' said Peter . `` They 're good things . Aunt Jane used to say if a man did n't have heads and stick to them he 'd go wandering all over the Bible and never get anywhere in particular . '' `` What are you going to preach on ? '' asked Felix . `` You 'll find out next Sunday , '' said Peter significantly . The next Sunday was in October , and a lovely day it was , warm and bland as June . There was something in the fine , elusive air , that recalled beautiful , forgotten things and suggested delicate future hopes . The woods had wrapped fine-woven gossamers about them and the westering hill was crimson and gold . We sat around the Pulpit Stone and waited for Peter and Sara Ray . It was the former 's Sunday off and he had gone home the night before , but he assured us he would be back in time to preach his sermon . Presently he arrived and mounted the granite boulder as if to the manor born . He was dressed in his new suit and I , perceiving this , felt that he had the advantage of me . When I preached I had to wear my second best suit , for it was one of Aunt Janet 's laws that we should take our good suits off when we came home from church . There were , I saw , compensations for being a hired boy . Peter made quite a handsome little minister , in his navy blue coat , white collar , and neatly bowed tie . His black eyes shone , and his black curls were brushed up in quite a ministerial pompadour , but threatened to tumble over at the top in graceless ringlets .
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