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St James
Episcopal Church

Early photo by Kate Matthews

http://www.stjamespewee.org/history.asp


Recent views of the church, including the Stile where Malcolm proposed to the
Little Colonel
From The Little Colonel at Boarding School: Chapter
16 (illustration
from the book)
It was a pretty
picture she left on the page, of the winter woods, of
the old stile leading into the adjoining churchyard,
where in almost a thicket of bare
dogwood-trees and lilac-bushes stood the little
Episcopal church, built like the one next the manse, of
picturesque gray stone. The walls were aglow with the
brilliant red and orange berries of the bittersweet,
which hung even from the eaves and cornices, and from
every place where the graceful vines could trail and
twist and clamber.
.....
She did
not know how to put into words the vague, undefined feeling that
she had, that he must not come to her with such speeches until
he had won his spurs and received his accolade. It was her
helplessness to answer as she wished that made her
spring up impatiently and say in her most imperious, Little
Colonel-like way, "Didn't you heah me tell you to stop talking
that way, Malcolm MacIntyre? Of co'se I care for you. I've
always liked you, and I think you're one of the nicest boys I
know, but I won't if you keep on that way when I tell you to
stop. You might at least wait till you come back from college
and let me see what sawt of a man you've turned out to be!"
"I'll
be whatever you want me to be, Lloyd,"
he began, but just then the mistletoe gatherers came running
down the path toward them, and Ranald's whistle brought the
others from the churchyard with their bittersweet. Lloyd flung
away her nutshells, and standing on the top of the stile brushed
her dress with her handkerchief. Malcolm, swinging his gun to
his shoulder, picked up her basket and walked beside her in
conscious silence, as the merry party strolled on toward the
depot.
Several
times she glanced up shyly at him, saying to herself again that
he was certainly one of the nicest boys she knew, the most
courteous, the most attractive, with the same beauty of face and
polish of manner that had made him such a winning little Knight
of Kentucky. But the little pin he had worn as the badge of that
knighthood, that stood for the "wearing the
white flower of a blameless life," was no longer on the lapel of
his coat. He had laid it aside more than a year ago, saying that
he had outgrown that child's play, and that it was impossible
for a fellow of his age to live up to it.
As Lloyd noticed its absence she was glad that
she had answered him as she did. But almost with the same breath
came the recollection that he had said, "I'll be whatever you
want me to be, Lloyd," and she wondered with a quicker
heart-throb if it were really so that she had power to wield
such an influence over him, and she wondered also, if she had
given him the curl as he asked, and told him that she wanted him
to wear the white flower again and live up to its meaning, if he
would have done it for her sake.
This scene is referred to again and
again later in the books, especially
http://www.littlecolonel.com/Books/ChristmasVacation/Chapter09.htm
http://www.littlecolonel.com/Books/MaidofHonor/Chapter15.htm
http://www.littlecolonel.com/Books/KnightComesRiding/Chapter10.htm
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