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"But even that would not make him a Christian," argued Joan.
"It is part of it, dear, isn't it?" insisted Mary Stopperton. "To suffer
for one's faith. I think Jesus must have liked him for that."
They had commenced with the narrow strip of burial ground lying between
the south side of the church and Cheyne Walk. And there the little pew-
opener had showed her the grave of Anna, afterwards Mrs. Spragg. "Who
long declining wedlock and aspiring above her sex fought under her
brother with arms and manly attire in a flagship against the French." As
also of Mary Astell, her contemporary, who had written a spirited "Essay
in Defence of the Fair Sex." So there had been a Suffrage Movement as
far back as in the days of Pope and Swift.
Returning to the interior, Joan had duly admired the Cheyne monument, but
had been unable to disguise her amusement before the tomb of Mrs.
Colvile, whom the sculptor had represented as a somewhat impatient lady,
refusing to await the day of resurrection, but pushing through her coffin
and starting for Heaven in her grave-clothes.
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