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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. HE minister was a new arrival in the town, and was taking count of all those who were to be his helpers in the work he was to do. Among them was the sexton of the church. He was old, and had seen ministers come and go?bishops too?and yet he stayed on until he was an integral part of the church, and no one thought of St. John's without him. And now Randolph was making his bow to the new minister, and saying to himself,?"Dis heah is shuah de right sort foh St. John's. He looks like he got sense, an' 'ligion, an' style. Folks don' of'en git dat com-be-nation; in gin'ally if you git style (dat is. stylish miff to do) you don' git much 'ligion; an' mos'ly de ve'y 'ligious ones looks kin' o' down at de heels." And while Randolph eyes the minister, we may look at Randolph. He is tall and slim, with snow-white hair, and the blackest of skins. Dignified, gentle-mannered and slow of speech; his garments spotless, and his linen white; Randolph himself looks as though he were used to the company of gentlemen. "Yas sah! Yas sah! youah ordahs is what I wants, sah! Chu'ch is in gin'al on Sunday mohnins, an' eve- nin's, an' funerals, an' weddin's. No, sah! de ladies dey don' meet none; leastways dey don' meet heah. No, sah! dey ain't no clubs?dis heah is jess a chu'ch foh de fust famblies." Randolph's instinct told him that the new minister belonged with the first families, but he did not know that the new minister believed that "birth conveys no merit, but much duty to its inheritor." If he had known that, he might have resigned his work then and there. "Yas, sah! Yas sah! dis heah is a fine ole town, shuah nuff. We don' has no new-fangled notions; we don' has no ways ob yesterday; we is folks f'um de day befoah yesterday, we is,?de day befoah...