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Saturday and Saturday night came and passed, and Alfred Stevens did not appear, a lurking dread that would not be chidden or kept down, continued to rise within her soul, which, without assuming any real form or decisive speech, was yet suggestive of complete overthrow and ruin.

Thus it was that the favoring opinions which Alfred Stevens expressed--a favoring opinion expressed by one whom she soon discovered was well able to form one--accompanied by an assurance that the dream of fame which her wild imagination had formed should certainly be realized, gave him a large power over her confidence.

Thackeray, the widow, to whom Stevens had paid two visits or more since he had been in the village, and who had her own reasons for doubting that Margaret Cooper had really obtained any advantages in the general struggle to find favor in the sight of this handsome man of God--was loud in her eulogy upon the latter, and equally unsparing in her denunciations of the village lad who meditated so foul a crime as the extinguishing so blessed a light.

Brother Stevens so loved the picturesque--lakes embosomed in hills, and streams stealing through unbroken forests, and all so much the more devotedly, when he had such a companion as Margaret Cooper.

Shake thyself loose from them, Alfred Stevens, and thy way henceforth is perfect freedom.

Alfred Stevens, I do myself suffer from some of the weaknesses of which thou hast spoken.

Alfred Stevens, that the disorder comes in great part from that cause, though, still, I have my doubts if it be not a sort of wind-melancholy, to which people, who preach aloud are greatly subject.

Alfred Stevens, do they call this medicine, the goodly effect of which thou holdst to be so great?

Alfred Stevens, show me where the cool waters lie, that I may put out these raging flames.

He straddled the stream and thrust his lips into the water, drawing up a quantity sufficient, in the estimation of Stevens, to have effectually neutralized the entire contents of his flask.

Ah, my young friend, Alfred Stevens, I trust thou didst not mean me harm in giving me that poisonous liquor?

Take my counsel, I pray thee, Alfred Stevens, and cast it behind thee for ever.

The concession made by Stevens, and which had produced an effect so gratifying upon his companion, was one that involved no sacrifices.

Brother Stevens, worldly goods and worldly wealth are no more needed in Charlemont, than they are necessary to the service of the blessed Redeemer.

That evening, Alfred Stevens became, with his worthier companion, an inmate of the happy dwelling of William Hinkley, the elder--a venerable, white-headed father, whose whole life had made him worthy of a far higher eulogium than that which John Cross had pronounced upon him.