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'The Apollos of the world, - I don't mean in outward looks, mamma, - but the Apollos in heart, the men, - and the women too, - who are so full of feeling, so soft-natured, so kind, who never say a cross word, who never get out of bed on the wrong side in the morning, - it so often turns out that they won't wash.'
Such was the expression of Miss Lily Dale's experience.

'And am I a thief?' he said to himself, standing in the middle of the road, with his hands up to his forehead.

'There is a way out of it,' he said. 'There is a way. There is but one way.' When he had so spoken, she said no more, but resolved that her eye should never be off him, no, - not for a moment. Then, when she had gotten him once more into that front parlour, she threw her arms round him and kissed him.

After that, after those church services were over, he sank again and never roused himself till the dreaded day had come.