Issuing from the door of the Riverboro Town House,
and
cheap louis vuitton bags winding
down the hill, through the long row of teams and carriages that lined the
roadside, came a procession of singing men and singing women. Convinced of sin,
but entranced with promised pardon; spiritually intoxicated by the glowing
eloquence of the latter-day prophet they were worshipping, the band of
"Cochranites" marched down the dusty road and across the bridge, dancing,
swaying, waving handkerchiefs, and shouting hosannas.
God watched, and
listened, knowing that there would be other
cheap
louis vuitton handbags prophets, true and false, in the days to
come, and other processions following them; and the river watched and listened
too, as it hurried on towards the sea with its story of the present that was
sometime to be the history of the past.
When Jacob Cochrane was leading
his overwrought, ecstatic band across the river, Waitstill Baxter, then a child,
was watching the strange, noisy company from the window of a little brick
dwelling on
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the Town-House Hill.
Her stepmother stood beside her with a young baby
in her arms, but when she saw what held the gaze of the child she drew her away,
saying: "We mustn't look, Waitstill; your father don't like it!"
"Who
was the big man at the head, mother?"
"His name is Jacob Cochrane, but
you mustn't think or talk about him; he is very wicked."
"He doesn't
look any wickeder than the others," said the
louis vuitton
outlet child. "Who was the man that fell down in the road, mother,
and the woman that knelt and prayed over him? Why did he fall, and why did she
pray, mother?"
"That was Master Aaron Boynton, the schoolmaster, and his
wife. He only made believe to fall down, as the Cochranites do; the way they
carry on is a disgrace to the village, and that's the reason your father won't
let us look at them."
"I played
chanel bags sale with a nice
boy over to Boynton's," mused the child.
"That was Ivory, their only
child. He is a good little fellow, but his mother and father will spoil him with
their crazy ways."
"I hope nothing will happen to him, for I love him,"
said the child gravely. "He showed me a humming-bird's nest, the first ever I
saw, and the littlest!"