Have a peppermint ? '' To our horror Peg produced a handful of peppermint lozenges from the pocket of her skirt and offered us one each . We did not dare refuse but we each held our lozenge very gingerly in our hands . `` Eat them , '' commanded Peg rather fiercely . `` Mother does n't allow us to eat candy in church , '' faltered Felicity . `` Well , I 've seen just as fine ladies as your ma give their children lozenges in church , '' said Peg loftily . She put a peppermint in her own mouth and sucked it with gusto . We were relieved , for she did not talk during the process ; but our relief was of short duration . A bevy of three very smartly dressed young ladies , sweeping past our pew , started Peg off again . `` Yez need n't be so stuck up , '' she said , loudly and derisively . `` Yez was all of yez rocked in a flour barrel . And there 's old Henry Frewen , still above ground . I called my parrot after him because their noses were exactly alike . Look at Caroline Marr , will yez ? That 's a woman who 'd like pretty well to get married , And there 's Alexander Marr . He 's a real Christian , anyhow , and so 's his dog . I can always size up what a man 's religion amounts to by the kind of dog he keeps . Alexander Marr is a good man . '' It was a relief to hear Peg speak well of somebody ; but that was the only exception she made . `` Look at Dave Fraser strutting in , '' she went on .
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