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 “A little sovereign, that is all.”

“Dear, dear; the Word of the little Big Man for a sovereign!” “Keep you the Book on your parlour table for a week. Maybe others who are thirsty will see it.” Then the Seller of Bibles sang a prayer; and he departed.

Before the week was over the Respected Josiah Bryn-Bevan announced from his pulpit that in the call he had discerned the voice of God bidding him go forth into the vineyard. Nanni went home and prayed to the merciful God: “Dear little Big Man, spare me to listen to the farewell sermon of your saint.” Nanni informed the Seller of Bibles that she would buy the Book, and she asked him to take it away with him and have written inside it an inscription to the effect that it was a gift from the least worthy of his flock to the Respected