`` You said it was n't good manners to interrupt , sir , '' said Faith , more demurely still . `` If -- if I was your father , I would give you a spanking that you would remember all your life , Miss , '' said a very angry reverend gentleman , as he stalked out of the study . The coat of Mr. Meredith 's second best suit would not fit Mr. Perry , so he had to go to the evening service with his singed coat-tail . But he did not walk up the aisle with his usual consciousness of the honour he was conferring on the building . He never would agree to an exchange of pulpits with Mr. Meredith again , and he was barely civil to the latter when they met for a few minutes at the station the next morning . But Faith felt a certain gloomy satisfaction . Adam was partially avenged . CHAPTER XX . FAITH MAKES A FRIEND Next day in school was a hard one for Faith . Mary Vance had told the tale of Adam , and all the scholars , except the Blythes , thought it quite a joke . The girls told Faith , between giggles , that it was too bad , and the boys wrote sardonic notes of condolence to her . Poor Faith went home from school feeling her very soul raw and smarting within her . `` I 'm going over to Ingleside to have a talk with Mrs. Blythe , '' she sobbed . `` SHE wo n't laugh at me , as everybody else does . I 've just GOT to talk to somebody who understands how bad I feel . '' She ran down through Rainbow Valley . Enchantment had been at work the night before . A light snow had fallen and the powdered firs were dreaming of a spring to come and a joy to be . The long hill beyond was richly purple with leafless beeches . The rosy light of sunset lay over the world like a pink kiss .
Of all the airy , fairy places , full of weird , elfin grace , Rainbow Valley XXXXX winter evening was the most beautiful .
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