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"Extraordinary young man! " exclaimed Mrs. Ramshorn as they left the / church, with a sigh that expressed despair. "Is he an infidel or a / fanatic? a Jesuit or a Socinian?"
"If he would pay a little more attention to his composition," said / Bascombe indifferently, "he might in time make of himself a good / speaker. I am not at all sure there are not the elements of an / orator in him, if he would only reflect a little on the fine / relations between speech and passion, and learn of the best models / how to play upon the feelings of a congregation. I declare I don't / know, but he might make a great man of himself. As long as he don't / finish his sentences however, jumbles his figures, and begins and / ends abruptly without either exordium or peroration, he needn't look / to make anything of a preacher -- and that seems his object."