Gemini

Excerpt from Gemini

Elder Mason, the well-beloved pastor of the one parish, was able to, and did, visit each Of its families twice a year, and took tea with them all once. Everybody was known by his or her given name and the intricacies of relationship and intermarriage were such as to bewilder the brain, and defy the comprehension of any one not born and bred in the place. One keen November night, every mother, at least, in the little town, was lying awake, and praying for the Elder's wife; and when, in the early dawn, the rattle Of the Doctor's gig was heard' on the frozen road, many a window was raised.