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At last a comfortable carriage, driven by a stalwart negro, draws up to the porch. An elderly man, well and carefully dressed, jumps out and helps a woman some what younger than himself to alight. Without being tall, she is somehow imposing-looking, in her stiff, full skirted black silk gown, twisted silk shawl and plain straw bonnet. There bounds out behind her a little girl about ten years old, with clear gray eyes and bright red brown hair, and dressed in a white frock and broad brimmed straw hat. The mother, for mother and child they are, takes the little girl by the hand and hurries into the Meeting; the child holding back reluctantly and with lagging steps. They take one Of the front seats facing the elders' benches, and just in front of the Open side door. The little girl slips quickly to the end Of the bench near the door, and the mother sits quietly farther away. There are a few straggling arrivals after this, a good deal Of shuffling of feet from the men on the other side of the partition, and a few nervous, irrepressible coughs from the women then an all-pervading silence falls and first-day Meeting begins.
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