'HULDAH was by no means so strict a disciplinarian as her
father, and she was guilty of some wide departures from the rules
of her sect, which would have given the conscientious farmer much
concern of mind if he had witnessed them. For instance, she had twice
accompanied Jeremiah to a Presbyterian meeting; and once she had
even entered the precincts of a public garden where there was much
profane music elaborated by fiddles and cornets-a-piston; and she had
looked with a manifest liking upon a gentleman and lady, decorated
with a wicked profusion of spangles, and quite an unnecessary economy
of clothing, who performed certain mysterious and highly figurative
evolutions, the object of which she did not fully comprehend; but they
were called in the bills a '_grand pas de deux_.''