Mormans

(1980 memoirs)
Now for the last wall [of Frankie's living room], opposite the organ.  Here was the built-in bookcase, and next to it near the couch hung the striking clock.  The bookcase held very few books, some dreary ones of religious tracts; and the one most frequently taken down was the one about the Mormons, about which she often discoursed; it reveals their wickedness.  The leaders often went out at night and murdered the men who were against them and buried them too; so no one ever knew what had become of them!  And then they had so many wives and of course children.  This single conduct would set dear cousin Frankie all a quiver with righteous wrath and her glasses all a tremble on her pious nose.  Dear dear cousin, I am glad you never knew how wicked the world really is.  It would break your heart.