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When we drew up at the entrance to Proudfit House we all alighted, Calliope and Abel and I to walk home. But while we were saying good night to Delia, the door opened and Clementina Proudfit stood against the light. The car was to wait, she said, to take Mr. Baring, the lawyer, to the midnight train. And then, as she saw her: "Calliope!" she cried, "I never wanted anybody so much.

This thought had but passed through his mind when God appeared unto him, and addressed him in these words: "Before thy parents thou canst flee, but canst thou go out from My presence, too? 'Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? Alas for Abel that he showed thee mercy, and refrained from killing thee, when he had thee in his power!

"You are in a charming mood to-day." "Which is more than I could say for you the last time we met. You threatened, stormed, were childish, impossible to a degree." His face became grave. "We were such good friends once!" "Once once?" she asked maliciously. "Once Cain and Abel were a happy family. When was that once?" "Two years ago. What talks we had then!

Handy muttered something, and was departing; but he was stopped in the doorway by the huge frame of the newcomer. "You've been doing no good here, Abel Handy," said he, "'tis plain to see that; and 'tisn't much good, I'm thinking, you ever do." "I mind my own business, Master Bunce," muttered the other, "and do you do the same.

James, the old man with the elf-locks who shared the honey prizes with Abel, two farmers from the other side of the Mountain, Martha's brother, and the man with the red braces who had won the race when Reddin turned. They coughed. 'Will you come in? asked Edward. They straggled in, very much embarrassed. Hazel wished them good morning. 'This young woman, Mr.

"When a man has turned ninety he might as well cease to take thought for his morals, an' let the natchel bent of 'em have a chance." It was plain that his last glass had been too much for him, and that, for the first time in his temperate career, he was rapidly approaching a condition of alcoholic ecstasy. "You'd better go home and take a nap," said Abel kindly.

"It may be," said Abel, doggedly. And his face was very evil as he struck a match to relight his pipe; but before the flame Langholm had stepped backward, with his stick, that no superfluous light might fall upon his thin wrists and half-filled sleeves. "You are sure," he pursued, "that Mr. Minchin was in possession of this precious secret at the time of his death?" "I told it him myself.

Abel had been putting some new sections on the hives, and, as usual, after a long spell of listening to their low, changeless music, he rushed in for his harp. He sat down under the hawthorn by the gate, and looked like a patriarch beneath a pale green tint. As day declined the music waxed; he played with a tenderness, a rage of delight, that did not often come to him except on spring evenings.

We're just as likely to strike something as good or even better during the course of the day. The whole country-side is honeycombed with hiding-places; it's like a rabbit-warren." "There's nothing like being an optimist," Bradby said. "Have it your way, Abel. Now the sooner you find some nice secure little spot the better for us, I'm thinking.

After Abel was slain, and his brother Cain had gone into another land, again God gave a child to Adam and Eve. This child they named Seth; and other sons and daughters were given to them; for Adam and Eve lived many years. But at last they died, as God had said they must die, because they had eaten of the tree that God had forbidden them to eat.