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she drove to the pound in Argyle and brought back the
first of many dogs. Now, Arthur had said, she had
taken the blind old Big Mutt away with her last night.
Had she loved the dog too much to leave behind, or
feared he loved the dog too little?
The sailor helped his girl into the trembling swan.
And up in a window of the stone hotel, Winslow
Abernathy noticed that the coffee he drank was now
cold. It was past time to take his pill.
The First Congregational Church, which looks
down on Dingley Green and is physically the largest
church in town, should be, by New England tradition,
also the church to gather into its fold the largest number
of Dingley Falls's big sheep. Three hundred years ago,
however, Elijah Dingley, revolting against his father's
Puritanism and his mother's Evangelicalism, had gone so
far—from Providence—as to found Dingley Falls on
the Rampage and to build there a High Anglican
Church, of which St. Andrew's was the third stone
replacement; and to confirm in it his firstborn, Thomas
Laud Dingley, whom he had named after that very