Bret Harte

Name: Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne
Author: Bret Harte

Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

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“Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne”, published in 1901, is a work by Bret Harte. It explores elements such as Golly, John Gale and Jinny Jones.

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ Golly is going there, too, as hospital nurse. There's a pair of you! He! he! Look after her, John, and protect her Manx simplicity." Before John could recover himself, Golly was at his side executing the final steps of a "cellar-door flap jig" to the light-hearted refrain:—
"We are a simple family—we are—we are—we are!"
And even as her pure young voice arose above the screams of the departure whistle, she threw a double back-somersault on the quarter-deck, cleverly alighting on the spikes of the wheel before the delighted captain. ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ He was leaning over the bath-tub, which was half full of water, contemplating with some anxiety the model of a line-of-battle ship which was floating on it, bottom upward.
"I don't think it can be quite right—do you?" he said, nervously grasping his nephew's hand as he pointed to the capsized vessel; "yet they always do it. Tell me!" he went on appealingly, "tell me, as a professing Christian and a Perfect Man—is it quite right?"
"I should think, sir," responded John Gale, with uncompromising truthfulness, "that the average vessel of commerce is not built in that way." ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ Think of that, you dear old Manx people! But there—'the bell goes a ringing for Sarah!'—they're calling for Nurse! That's the worst of this job: they're always a-dyin' just as you're getting interested in something else! Ta-ta!—Golly!"
Then her dear old grandfather wrote:
"I'm wondering where my diddleums, Golly, is! We all miss you so much, deary, though we don't miss so many little things as when you were here. My dear, conscientious, unselfish little girl! You don't say where John Gale is. Is he still protecting you—he-he!—you giddy, naughty thing! ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ Nevertheless, John Gale left the monastery. "The Bishopsgate Street winter does not suit me," he briefly explained to the Superior. "I must go south or southwest."
But he did neither. He saw Golly, who was living west. He upbraided her for going on the stage. She retorted: "Whose life is the more artificial, yours or mine? It is true that we are both imperfectly clothed," she added, glancing at a photograph of herself in a short skirt, "and not always in our right mind—but you've caught nothing but a cold! ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ His dog had "pointed" her. "It's exceedingly impolite to point to anything you want," said Golly. Touched by this, and overcome by a strange emotion, John Gale turned away and went to Canada. Slight as the incident was, it showed that inborn chivalry to women, that desire for the Perfect Life, that intense eagerness to incarnate Christianity in modern society, which afterward distinguished him. Golly loved him! ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ She wrote to John Gale: "The South Seas is rather an expensive trip to take simply to die. Couldn't we do it as cheaply at home? Or couldn't you prevail on your Father Superior to set up his monastery there? ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ Nevertheless, Golly lost her place at the hospital through her heroic defense of her friend Jinny Jones, who had been deceived by Lord Brownstone Ewer. "You would drive that poor girl into the street," she said furiously to the Chairman of the Board, throwing her cap and apron in their faces. "You're a lot of rotten old hypocrites, and I'm glad to get shut of you." Not content with that, she went to Drake and demanded that he should make his friend Lord Brownstone marry Jinny. ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ He inveighed against Society and Wickedness as represented in his mind by Golly and her friends—and praised a perfect Christianity represented by himself and his friends. A panic of the same remarkable character as the Bishopsgate Street winter took possession of London. Old Moore's, Zadkiel's, and Mother Shipton's prophecies were to be fulfilled at an early and fixed date, with no postponement on account of weather. Suddenly Society, John Drake, and Antichrist generally combined by ousting him from his church, and turning it into a music-hall for Golly! ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ But give it hotter to 'em next time." Discomfited and bewildered, he communed with himself gloomily. "I can't marry Golly. I can't talk. I hate society. What's to be done? I have it! I'll go into a monastery."
He went into a monastery in Bishopsgate Street, reached by a threepenny 'bus. He gave out vaguely that he had got into "Something Good, in the City." Society was satisfied. Only Golly suspected the truth. She wrote to her grandfather:
"I saw John Gale the other day with a crowd following him in the Strand. ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ Fired by this simple letter, and alarmed by Golly's simplicity, John Gale went to his clerical chief, Archdeacon Luxury, and demanded permission to preach next Sunday. "Certainly," said the Archdeacon; "you shall take my curate's place. I shall inform the congregation that you are the son of Lord Gale. They are very particular churchmen—all society people—and of course will be satisfied with the work of the Lord, especially," he added, with a polite smile, "when that work happens to be—the Lord Gale's son." Accordingly, the next Sunday, John Gale occupied the pulpit of St. ”

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Bret Harte, Golly and the Christian, or, The Minx and the Manxman by H—ll C—ne (1901)

“ And they don't steer! The larger they are and the more recent the model, the less they steer. Dear me—you ought to see 'em go round and round in that tub." Then, apparently recalling the probable purpose of John's visit, he led the way into his dressing-room. ”

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