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Jope with fine solemnity, "if I was to put a name on your besettin' sin, it would be cowardice an' you can just sit here in the dark an' think it over." "When I was on the p'int of offering to go with ye!" "Ho! Was you? Very well, then, I accept the offer, an' you can walk first." "But I don't see " "Another word," announced Mr. Jope firmly, "an' you won't! For I'll blow out the candle." Mr.
Reckon there's been a thousand men run into the river country to become outlaws since yours truly. You jest wait here an' be ready to ride hard. Mebbe my besettin' sin will go operatin' in spite of my good intentions. In which case there'll be " His pause was significant. He grinned, and his brown eyes danced with a kind of wild humor. "Stevens, have you got any money?" asked Duane.
"See here, suppose an unbeliever determines to get the better of his besettin' sin. He's man enough to strive well for a time. At last he begins to grow a little weary o' the battle it is so awful hard. Better almost to die an' be done with it, he sometimes thinks. Then comes a day when his temptation is ten times more than he is able to bear.
"Men in our line of business must learn to just hang on and wait for the proper minute to strike the hook home in the fish's jaw." "Yeah, an' then hang on some more, after they git the barb well hooked, with the game fish kickin' up an awful row," chuckled Perk. "Huh! don't I know how impatience is my besettin' sin and ain't I always a'tryin' to curb it?
"Where you've got the Christian life and spirit written down as bein' like a quiet, peaceful home, free from all distrust, and like that, why don't you change it to a good safe anchorage, where the soul can ride forever without fear of breakers or no'theasters or the dangers besettin' the mariner on a lee shore. They'll understand that; it gets right home to 'em.
Not the old sins of Adam and Noah and the rest patriarchal sins that made us feel reproachful towards the old sinful patriarchs and comfortable toward ourselves. No, he pinted out the besettin' sins that are rampant and liable to ruin us in the nineteen hundreds.
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