第 6 节
作者:男孩不逛街      更新:2021-02-25 00:10      字数:1426
  〃But are you SURE?〃 said Dr。 Duchesne; with perhaps less concern
  than before。
  〃Sure;〃 returned the Deacon angrily; 〃didn't Brother Bulkley; on
  account of warning reports made by a God…fearing and soul…seeking
  teamster; make a special pilgrimage to this land of Sodom to
  inquire and spy out its wickedness?  Didn't he find Stephen
  Masterton steeped in the iniquity of practicing on an organhe
  that scorned even a violin or harmonium in the tents of the Lord
  in an idolatrous chapel; with a foreign female Papist for a
  teacher?  Didn't he find him a guest at the board of a Jesuit
  priest; visiting the schools of the Mission where this young
  Jezebel of a singer teaches the children to chant in unknown
  tongues?  Didn't he find him living with a wrinkled Indian witch
  who called him 'Padrone'and speaking her gibberish?  Didn't he
  find him; who left here a man mortified in flesh and spirit and
  pale with striving with sinners; fat and rosy from native wines and
  fleshpots; and even vain and gaudy in colored apparel?  And last of
  all; didn't Brother Bulkley hear that a rumor was spread far and
  wide that this miserable backslider was to take to himself a wife
  in one of these strange womenthat very Jezebel who seduced him?
  What do you call that?〃
  〃It looks a good deal like human nature;〃 said the doctor;
  musingly; 〃but I call it a cure!〃