What is the saying--'a little child shall lead them,' is it
not? Perhaps we do not make enough allowances. 'Faith, Hope and Charity,
these three, but the greatest of these is charity'--or love, which is
the same thing. However, of course you are quite right not to have been
frightened by his silly talk about the _Isitunzi_, it would never do to
show fear or hesitation. Still, I am glad that Mrs. Bull did not hear
it; you may have noticed that she had gone on ahead, and if I were you
I should not repeat it to her, since ladies are so nervous. Tabitha, my
dear, don't tell your mother anything of all this."
"No, Bishop," answered Tabitha, "I never tell her all the queer things
that Menzi says to me when I meet him, or at least not many of them."
"I wish I had asked him if he had a cure for your local fever," said the
Bishop with a laugh, "for against it, although I have taken so much that
my ears buzz, quinine cannot prevail."
"He has given me one in a gourd, Bishop," replied Tabitha
confidentially, "but I have never taken any, because you see I have had
no fever, and I haven't told mother, for if I did she would tell father"
(Thomas had stridden ahead, and was out of hearing), "and he might be
angry because he doesn't like Menzi, though I do.
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