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LEFT BEHIND
BY IRVING BACHELLER
THE Bishop was a tall, fine-looking man of middle age and great dignity. He had a handsome house furnished in excellent taste and a handsome, vivacious wife noticeably younger than he. The Bishop took me to my room.
I was to lecture in the parlors at eight. I had an hour's rest and went below stairs where the Bishop's wife was pouring tea. She was a fashionably dressed woman, as gay as the Bishop was solemn. She was the daughter of the richest man in that growing city of the South in which they lived and president of the Ladies' Literary Club.
"I hope your lecture will be funny," she said to me.
"I always hope it will be funny," was my answer. "But no man can be funny without help unless he lives alone on a desert island where he can laugh at his own jokes."
"Our last lecture was such a bore!" she exclaimed.
"I wonder that you pay people to come here and afflict you with their wisdom," I suggested.
"Well, you see women must have something to do," she went on. "They get tired of teas and cards and dances. A lecture is either a joy or a tahsk, and women are in need of both."
The Bishop came to me and said: "Sir, you are going to tell us of the
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