`` I 'll tell father when he comes home what you 've done , '' sobbed Faith . `` Do n't you go bothering your poor father . He has troubles enough . And I 'M housekeeper here . '' `` Adam was MINE -- Mrs. Johnson gave him to me . You had no business to touch him , '' stormed Faith . `` Do n't you get sassy now . The rooster 's killed and there 's an end of it . I ai n't going to set no strange minister down to a dinner of cold b ` iled mutton . I was brought up to know better than that , if I have come down in the world . '' Faith would not go down to supper that night and she would not go to church the next morning . But at dinner time she went to the table , her eyes swollen with crying , her face sullen . The Rev. James Perry was a sleek , rubicund man , with a bristling white moustache , bushy white eyebrows , and a shining bald head . He was certainly not handsome and he was a very tiresome , pompous sort of person . But if he had looked like the Archangel Michael and talked with the tongues of men and angels Faith would still have utterly detested him . He carved Adam up dexterously , showing off his plump white hands and very handsome diamond ring . Also , he made jovial remarks all through the performance . Jerry and Carl giggled , and even Una smiled wanly , because she thought politeness demanded it . But Faith only scowled darkly . The Rev. James thought her manners shockingly bad .
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