An edition of The devil's disciple (1906)

The Devil's Disciple

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An edition of The devil's disciple (1906)

The Devil's Disciple

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From the book:At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and Mrs. Dudgeon's face, even at its best, is grimly trenched by the channels into which the barren forms and observances of a dead Puritanism can pen a bitter temper and a fierce pride. She is an elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it except dominion and detestation in her sordid home, and an unquestioned reputation for piety and respectability among her neighbors, to whom drink and debauchery are still so much more tempting than religion and rectitude, that they conceive goodness simply as self-denial. This conception is easily extended to others - denial, and finally generalized as covering anything disagreeable. So Mrs. Dudgeon, being exceedingly disagreeable, is held to be excee-dingly good. Short of flat felony, she enjoys complete license except for amiable weaknesses of any sort, and is consequently, without knowing it, the most licentious woman in the parish on the strength of never having broken the seventh commandment or missed a Sunday at the Presbyterian church.

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OL24295555M
ISBN 10
1595403507
OCLC/WorldCat
182540368
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FFE0F54E-FFBF-42C2-AFE1-C6696814FD82

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A young man takes sides with the Devil against straight laced Puritan respectability in the threatening days of the Revolutionary War.

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August 31, 2013 Edited by VacuumBot Updated format 'E-book' to 'eBook'
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