But I daresay no one ever had a sounder pair of eyes than I."
To Sharlee this seemed one of the most pathetic of all his confidences;
she offered no comment.
"You were in the churchyard," stated Mr. Queed. "I was there just ahead
of you. I was struck with that motto or text on the headstone, and shall
look it up when I get home. I have been making a more careful study of
your Bible this autumn and have found it exceptionally interesting. You,
I suppose, subscribe to all the tenets of the Christian faith?"
Sharlee hesitated. "I'm not sure that I can answer that with a direct
yes, and I _will_ not answer it with any sort of no. So I'll say that I
believe in them all, modified a little in places to satisfy my reason."
"Ah, they are subject to modification, then?"
"Certainly. Aren't you? Am not I? Whatever is alive is subject to
modification. These doctrines," said she, "are evolving because they
have the principle of life in them."
"So you are an evolutionist?"
"The expert in evolutionary sociology will hardly quarrel with me for
that."
"The expert in evolutionary sociology deals with social organisms,
nations, the human race.
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