She thought
she had rubbed out Polly's image and made a impression herself on Royal's
heart that only needed stompin' in a little deeper, and she thought
ridicule would be the stomper she needed.
But when they got to the meetin' and he see Polly settin' like a lily
amongst flowers, and read in her lovely face the earnest desire to lift the
burden from the heavy laden, comfort the sorrowful, right the wrong, and do
what she could in her day and generation--
I spoze his eyes could only see her sweet face. But he couldn't help his
ears from hearin' the reasonable, eloquent words of earnest and womanly
wimmen, so full of good sense and truth and justice that no reasonable
person could dispute 'em, and when he contrasted all this with the sneerin'
face, the sarcastic egotistic prattle of Maud, the veil dropped from his
eyes, and he see with the New Vision.
You know how it wuz with Saul the Scoffer who went breathin' out vengeance,
and Eternal Right stopped him on his way with its great light. Well, I
spoze it wuz a bright ray from that same light that shone down into Royal's
heart and made him see. He wuz always good hearted and generous--men have
always been better than the laws they have made. He left Maud at her home
not fur away and hastened back, way-laid Polly, and bore her home in
triumph and a thirty-horse-power car.
It don't make much difference I spoze how or where anybody is converted.
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