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"Richard Hare was there. Otway Bethel and Locksley also. Those were all I saw until the crowd came." "Were Locksley and Mr. Otway Bethel martyrs to your charms, as the other two were?" "No, indeed!" was the witness's answer, with an indignant toss of the head. "A couple of poaching fellows like them! They had better have tried it on!"
It was while sojourning at Bethel that the Lord appeared again unto Abram, and promised to him the whole land as a future possession of his posterity. After that he removed his tent to the plain of Mamre, near or in Hebron, and again erected an altar to his God.
In the old University building on the east side of the Square Theodore Winthrop later as Colonel Winthrop to meet a soldier's death at Big Bethel wrote "John Brent," and the famous but utterly dreary "Cecil Dreeme," and a few doors below is the red brick apartment where in more modern days so many of the younger scribblers have toiled in the years of their pseudo-Bohemia.
He affirmed, that these fictions had been extorted from him by the suggestions and artifices of Treby, the recorder, and of Bethel and Cornish, the two sheriffs: this account he persisted in even at his execution; and though men knew that nothing could be depended on which came from one so corrupt, and so lost to all sense of honor, yet were they inclined, from his perseverance, to rely somewhat more on his veracity in these last asseverations.
He is one that could willingly bend down to the golden-calf of Bethel, and would have fished for the dust thereof when it was ground to powder and cast upon the waters. Thy father was a man of another stamp." "My father," replied Morton, "was indeed a brave and gallant man. And you may have heard, sir, that he fought for that royal family in whose name I was this day carrying arms."
"I feel sure of it also, mamma." "I asked him, you remember, whether it was Otway Bethel who committed it; for I have always doubted Bethel, in an indefinite, vague manner. Richard replied it was not Bethel, but a stranger.
The friendship of such men as Erasmus, Froben, Bonifacius Amerbach, and the Mayor, all conspicuous stars in the Church party, would have ennobled a man of less genius than Holbein in the eyes of his fellow-citizens; and rightly. But as to the exact locality in which Holbein set up his first married roof-tree that Bethel of sacred or saddest dreams no documentary evidence has yet come to light.
The Bethel Mission School was established in 1841, in Main Street, near the Catherine Ferry, then to rooms above the market on James Street, then to 42 and 44 Fulton Street.
To those that watched her, however, nothing was revealed. She stood by the fire, her hands at her side, her head slightly turned towards her brother. "Might I ask," she said quietly, "the name of the fortunate lady?" "Miss Bethel!" "Miss Bethel!" Garrett sprang to his feet. "Harry, you must be joking! You can't mean it! Not the daughter of Bethel at the Point the madman! the "
He told her how they had come to his house the previous evening after Barbara's departure, and his encounter with Tom Herbert that day; he mentioned, also, his interview with Bethel. "Can he have gone on purpose, fearing consequences?" wondered Barbara. "Scarcely; or why should he have come?"
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