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Absalom , who was frugal , had felt rather baffled at this threat . Nevertheless , here he was again on Sunday evening at the farm to assure Tillie that HE would stand by her , and that if she was not restored to membership in the meeting , he would n't give himself up , either . Mr. Getz dared not go to the length of forbidding Absalom his house , for that would have meant a family feud between all the Getzes and all the Puntzes of the county . He could only insist that Tillie `` dishearten him , '' and that she dismiss him not later than ten o'clock . To almost any other youth in the neighborhood , such opposition would have proved effectual . But every new obstacle seemed only to increase Absalom 's determination to have what he had set out to get . To-night he produced another book , which he said he had bought at the second-hand book-store in Lancaster . ''