Excerpt from The Promises of Alice: The Romance of a New England Parsonage William Alden had been called to the West Meadows church just as he completed his course in the theological school. The very day the call came, he proposed seeing his future assured to a pretty cousin, Mary Alden, who, to his astonish ment, refused him emphatically. She said she wasn't good, enough to be a minister's wife, and she didn't like the idea, anyhow. I want to be free to talk in my own way. If I should say 'darn it' all the Old maids in your church would hold up their hands! No, William; I'm fond of you, but I won't marry a parson! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.