Gospel Hour by T. R. Pearson

Author:T. R. Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barking Mad Press
Published: 2011-09-19T14:27:20+00:00

IV

She'd neglected somehow to make mention of it, had returned come Sunday from the sanctuary in her blue speckled dress and her tufted hat with the stunning bird- feather bouquet, and had stood there in the front room drawing off her gloves by the fingerends when she'd seen fit to speak to Donnie Huff of perdnent matters otherwise, had described for him most especially the ensemble of Mrs. Ocala Pugh that had not struck her as deft and seemly on account chiefly of the cut of the skirt which had caused it to cling and to bind in the most unflattering sort of a way. But she'd failed unaccountably to disclose to him just what precisely had transpired there in the sanctuary between the doxology and the biweekly prayer for the shut-ins which left Donnie Huff quite unable to andcipate the visit he received come Tuesday evening from a Laurel Fork delegation, the call he entertained from Mrs. Troy Haven and Mrs. Norma Baines and the Reverend Mr. Worrell's wife Louise in addition to Miss Cindy Womble who'd seen fit herself to tote along with her her sizable hooters that Donnie Huff commenced straightaway to appreciate and know in his heart such gladness about that he left the ladies to stand for a time on the front slab while he simply gazed enchantedly through the screenwire until Opal Criner prevailed upon him to admit please the pack of them into the house.

Marie Criner did not prove herself quite so charmed by the visit or nearly so enamored of the hooters as her husband Donnie Huff appeared to her to be. She did not in fact care much at all for Miss Cindy Womble straightoff and the two of them together bared at each other their teeth as a manner of salutation. Donnie Huff offered to the hooters a beverage and a snack, made at them trifling talk on the topic of the weather, which had been lately sublime, and inquired even after the health and well-being of their attachments and relations in advance of yielding to Opal Criner, his loving wife's mother, who wondered of the ladies what they might the bunch of them want and require. Of course they wanted and required what they'd all of them previously voted by acclamation upon there in the sanctuary between the doxology and the prayer for the shut-ins and, now that she'd been reminded and refreshed, Opal Criner told to the ladies, "Oh," told to the ladies, "that," and gave way to the Reverend Mr. Worrell's wife Louise who was not any longer herself in possession of the sort of enticements to engage Donnie Huff, or rather to disengage him entirely from certain attendant enticements otherwise. Consequently, Donnie Huff paid to Louise Worrell fairly scant regard as she reported to him their intention to invite him please to return to the sanctuary at Laurel Fork and speak on this occasion to the entire congregation who'd expressed this past Sunday, after the doxology

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