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"Your acceptance, however,
is provisional,
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"since there remains the matter
of obtaining a wife to accompany you.
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"To this end, you would be well advised
to present yourself in one month's time
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"at the house of Charles and Abigail
Bromley in Walpole, New Hampshire,
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"there to meet their daughter,
a Christian girl of 22.
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"May I also take the liberty
of suggesting that in the interim
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"you work in your father's fields
each day with your hat off.
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Yours in Christ, Elifaleth Thorn."
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Do you think
she will accept you, Abner?
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If God wishes it.
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Let us pray together.
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Almighty God, look down with pity
on this miserable company of sinners,
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conceived in lust, delivered in evil,
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and slaves to every loathsome appetite
the flesh is heir to.
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We have held fast against atheism,
Romanism, Unitarianism,
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and a score of lesser evils.
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And we thank Thee
that Thou has chosen one of us
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to carry Thy holy word
and the precious light of John Calvin
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to the wicked
and benighted heathen of Hawaii.
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- Amen.
- Amen.
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Welcome to Walpole.
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I trust you had
a reasonably pleasant journey.
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Yes, yes, indeed.
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The Reverend Abner Hale,
Mr. Charles Bromley.