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[Narrator] If forgiveness was close at hand
in the mission house, they were all hiding it well.
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It hadn't been easy for Tom to get them there.
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Appealing to consciences stowed farther
and farther away by their owners every day
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as if they were as fragile as Henson's
glasses after polishing, had proved quite a task.
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But if one was going, the others
might as well come along, too,
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so nobody could talk behind anybody's back.
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Tom had set the scene for Grace's speech.
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Now she'd have to sink or swim,
and sincerity be brought to bear.
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While Grace addressed the silent congregation
in the mission house on Elm Street
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the first of the early autumn snowstorms
embraced the town.
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The snowflakes dusted down over the old
buildings as if this were just any old town.
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And they played in the brances and twigs
from which the apples had hung,
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but luckily the harvest was home and
via the freight industry had found a market
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despite the ever disappointing prices.
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Grace had presented her story with clarity.
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She had not embellished or understated.
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And just as she finished the snowflakes
all at once stopped tumbling down,
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leaving Dogville clad in the daintiest,
whitest blanket of snow imaginable.
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I don't think it went very well.
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It's fine. You did good.