human
What have you heard of Mr. Good?
gpt
I will tell you. I am told that he was at Stukely only a few months, when the people resolved to dismiss him from their Church.
human
Indeed!
gpt
I have heard, said Mr. Webster,
human
But it may be, said Watson,
gpt
But from what I hear the fault was all in Mr. Good. I am pretty well acquainted with the folk at Stukely.
human
So you may be, and yet in this instance they may be more blamable than he. I have seen nothing as yet to create suspicion in respect to him. I think he is a good man and a good preacher. And if he continue as he has begun, there is the promise of great prosperity from his labours. We must take men as we find them, Mr. Webster; and whatever we might hear against them, we should believe them innocent until they are proved guilty. I have no doubt that a great proportion of your intelligence is scandal, created and set afloat by some person or persons with whom, perhaps, he had been more faithful than their sins would allow.
gpt
I hope it may turn out so, said Mr. Webster;
human
He could not, however, help thinking about what he had said: and although it did not affect his conduct towards his new minister, he could scarcely refrain an occasional thought that possibly there might be some truth in it. But he did not encourage it. Mr. Watson cherished the charity which
gpt
Mr. Webster, of Necham, has been to Stukely, the scene of Mr. Good's last labours. He has heard strange things about him. If they are true, and there seems to be little doubt of them, he will not suit us, and the sooner we get rid of him the better. This statement excited curiosity at once, and the question was immediately put,
human
What does he say?
gpt
He says a great many things, I tell you,
human
Well now, said Old Surmise,
gpt
If you can, I can't, and I won't,