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This she would say , however , that during her residence in Little Arcady she would fling aside the prejudice of a lifetime and worship each Sabbath at the minister 's Methodist church . It did not seem to the minister that she said it as might an explorer who consents for a time to adopt the manner and customs of the tribe among which a spirit of adventure has led him . He accepted her implied tribute modestly and with unaffected gratification , again wiping his brow and his broad , good face . When I joined them at four o'clock , having been moved by hope of a cooling chat with Miss Caroline , the minister was slightly more flushed , I thought , than the day could warrant . He was about to leave , was , in fact , concluding his choicest anecdote of `` Big Joe '' Kestril -- for he was a man who met all our kinds . `` Big Joe , '' six feet , five , a tower of muscled brawn , standing on a corner , pleasantly inebriated , had watched go feebly by the tottering , palsied form of little old Bolivar Kent , our most aged and richest man . The minister , also passing , had observed Kestril 's humorous stare .