Josephine Daskam Bacon

“ And when she found out that Ben had made Connie change back, Miss Naldreth laughed and said, "I thought she would—a lux benigna indeed!" That is Ben's name—Benigna.
So Connie gave the picture back and wrote a poem about being a Protestant again, and Rollie Ogden said it was all right and wrote a sermon about it. This is the poem:
"No more do I in the Pope believe,
For we know that he does ever deceive.
All my children shall Protestants be,
On the land or on the sea.
Nor will they ever and ever bow down
In a Catholic church in any town. ”

“ Connie said, trying to pretend that she didn't mind, "people don't join a religion because of the way it smells. Do you think that's why people are Protestants—because they think they smell better?"
"It's one of the reasons, probably," Ben answered, obstinate as usual, "and you'll think so when you get into that church."
Connie was just wild to be a Catholic Connie just walked away and went off with Gray Fairchild to see Aunt Isabel And Aunt Isabel petted her and promised to take her to church early in the morning with her. ”

“ They are always sad and somebody dies in every one of them. I asked her once why she didn't do a funny one for a change, but she said that wasn't what you wrote poetry for. She said there were funny enough things really happening every day without the trouble of making them up in poetry, and of course that is so.
All during Lent, Constantia never ate her desert once It was the Sunday after she said the apostles were full of wind that she wrote the poem, and then she told me that Aunt Isabel was the only one that hadn't laughed at her. ”

“ They all got red and coughed, so that Miss Naldreth noticed it herself—we saw her lift up her eyebrows, the way she does sometimes, and I tell you they stopped in a hurry!
Well, by that time Connie thought that everybody was laughing at her and she got pretty sulky. That's the way Connie has always been since the day she came into Elmbank: she doesn't get over things very quick. She thinks everybody is teasing her all the time, and mostly they're not at all. ”

“ Gray isn't a Catholic herself, but some of her relatives are, besides Aunt Isabel, and she told Mary Matterson that she was very much mistaken if she thought that only Irish people and coachmen were Catholics, because some very aristocratic and rich people were and always had been, to say nothing of the apostles. ”