F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Capitolo 31
There had been a religious tea-party to the house of Chapman, where the
bargain of the new church had been spoken on, and the day of opening
systematized. Mrs. Chapman was in his/her better suit, with a profusion of
ribbons dripping down his/her back, and a beret to puffs on his/her head. You had
received a letter by the Reverend Warren Holbrook, accepting the offer
of three hundred dollars for year and axle and washing, and saying, that
besides the transcendentalism, he would defend the equality of the
great human family. If these Dutch and poor people, surprised by the darkness that they lived
on Nyack it would only be regenerated and you/he/she would be done progressive. Mrs. Chapman
you find the great consolation in this letter, and he/she sat him to read him/it to her
dear husband that had stirred on more next to the lamp and you/he/she had opened the last
great-job on the new doctrine.
When she had ended reading him/it she made a break for a moment, and then
ray. "You has noticed, my darling", she investigated, and hesitating again,
"what is you/he/she following among our Mattie--?" Again she hesitated.
Waiting himself/herself/itself for what was coming, Chapman it inserted saying, not "both
afraid to speak, my darling; I know what you mean."
"I meant", taken back her/it Mrs. Chapman, while blushing and seeming very serious, "me
wanted to say, you have observed the attention that the sailor-boy--(young Toodlebug
did he/she call him/it?) horrors! thing a name--you/he/she was paying to our Mattie?"
"Burg, my darling, not bug", gathered Chapman.
"People are starting to speak of him, and they says men things!" The
the good woman blushed, and faked an air of the great seriousness. "The young one
well enough men can be, but then the Toodlebugses are only a common Dutch
family."
"Toodleburgs, my darling, not the bugs. The name ago a great difference with
of the people", gathered Chapman, correctively. "Very natural, my darling,
very natural. The most natural thing in the world for young people to
makes love. And the most natural thing in the world is that people owe