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"Cast out the bond-woman and her son for the son of the bond-maid shall in no wise inherit with the son of the free woman ." So then, brethren, we are not the children of the bondwoman, but of the free. STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.
He he ain't there." "Isn't there? Then why, child, did you do such a rude thing as to let her go on a useless errand? I really don't understand what has come over you to-night. You are trying my patience severely." "Yes'm," admitted the bond-maid, meekly.
"When the time comes that no human being acknowledges your ownership, perhaps you may receive a voluntary bond-maid, bound to you by stronger ties than the chattel of the slave." "But you love me, then, Olympia?" "I can not love where I do not reverence." "But it is not my fault that slaves are my inheritance!" "It will be your fault if they are your support when you are your own master."
All the empty old rooms were as orderly as when there had been many servants to attend them, but this was accomplished at a cost of incessant labor and watchfulness, which the mistress really enjoyed since it filled her days with "things to do," but which was not so well liked by her bond-maid.
She had wandered again, some two days since, and had not returned at nightfall, as was her habit. Therefore, remembering that at the "Hallowe'en Corkis" there would be many children assembled, and that children "know everything" of village happenings, Madam had come, meaning to ask for news. So the daisies had it, truly; and to the young bond-maid the longed-for happiness had been given.
Many entrust their money to the Newlanders, who remain in Holland, and on their arrival in this country they must either serve themselves, or sell their children to serve for them." The newspapers carried advertisements like the following from the Staatsbote of Philadelphia: "The time of service of a bond-maid is for sale.
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondwoman, and the other by a free. Now the son of the bond-maid was born after the flesh, but that by the free woman was by promise. Which things are allegorical; for these are the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, gendering unto bondage, which is represented by Agar.
But he was told it was this stream that had turned the first water mill in Ireland and that Cormac had put up the mill to save a beautiful bond-maid from toiling at the quern. The morning was spent in seeking the old sites, and in the afternoon he went to the inn and found a good number of villagers in the tap-room.
The bond-maid had rarely "done" her dishes so swiftly or so well, and, having set them in their places, she put out the kitchen candle, fetched her knitting, and sat down on her own stool beside the fireplace. For a wonder she was not sleepy.
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