Salem Chapel Author:Mrs. Oliphant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood and Sons Subjects: Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General Fiction / Christian / Romance Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has ... more »no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. T was only two days after this eventful meeting that Vincent, dling and meditative as was natural in such a condition of mind, trayed into Masters's shop to buy some books. It would have )een difficult for him to have explained why he went there, ex- :ept, perhaps, because it was the last place in the world which iia masters at the chapel would have advised him to enter. For here was another bookseller in the town, an Evangelical man, jatronised by Mr Bury, the whilom rector, where all the Tract -society's publications were to be had, not to speak of a general range of literature quite wide enough for the minister of Salem. Masters's was a branch of the London Masters, and, as might be supposed, was equally amazed and indignant at the intrusion of a Dissenter among its consecrated book-shelves. He was allowed to turn over all the varieties of the ' Christian Year ' on a side-table before any of the attendants condescended to notice his presence ; and it proved so difficult to find the books he wanted, and so much more difficult to find anybody who would take the trouble of looking for them, that the young Nonconformist, who was sufficiently ready to take offence, began to get hot and impatient, and had all but strode out of the shop, with a new mortification to record to the disadvantage of Carlingford. But just as he began to get very angry, the door swung softly open, and a voice became audib...« less