The Reverend Elmer Gantry was reading an illustrated pink periodical devoted to prize fighters and chorus girls in his room at Elizabeth J. Schmutz Hall late of an afternoon when two large men walked in without knocking.
"Why, good evening, Brother Bains-Brother Naylor! This is a pleasant surprise. I was, uh- Did you ever see this horrible rag? About actoresses. An invention of the devil himself. I was thinking of denouncing it next Sunday. I hope you never read it-won't you sit down, gentlemen?-take this chair- I hope you never read it, Brother Floyd, because the footsteps of-
"Why, good evening, Brother Bains-Brother Naylor! This is a pleasant surprise. I was, uh- Did you ever see this horrible rag? About actoresses. An invention of the devil himself. I was thinking of denouncing it next Sunday. I hope you never read it-won't you sit down, gentlemen?-take this chair- I hope you never read it, Brother Floyd, because the footsteps of-
( Sinclair Lewis )
[ Elmer Gantry ]
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