Bob 's milking . Nothing more for me to do but put on my white collar for meeting . Avonlea is more than lively since the evangelist came , ai n't it , though ! '' Mollie Bell nodded . She was curling her hair before the tiny mirror that hung on the whitewashed wall and distorted her round , pink-and-white face into a grotesque caricature . `` Wonder who 'll stand up to-night , '' said Eben reflectively , sitting down on the edge of the wood-box . `` There ai n't many sinners left in Avonlea -- only a few hardened chaps like myself . '' `` You should n't talk like that , '' said Mollie rebukingly . `` What if father heard you ? '' `` Father would n't hear me if I shouted it in his ear , '' returned Eben . `` He goes around , these days , like a man in a dream and a mighty bad dream at that . Father has always been a good man . What 's the matter with him ? '' `` I do n't know , '' said Mollie , dropping her voice . `` Mother is dreadfully worried over him . And everybody is talking , Eb . It just makes me squirm . Flora Jane Fletcher asked me last night why father never testified , and him one of the elders . She said the minister was perplexed about it . I felt my face getting red . ''
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