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He realized all in a moment that he had been supremely selfish, that his love was a covenant, a compact, which he had entered into with her and had no right to dissolve without her consent, and, strangely enough, now that he acknowledged the bond to himself, it became very sweet and satisfying. "Your lips cling so that I can't get free," sighed the girl, at last. "You never shall," he whispered.
Bond had not been to see them for a great while, and the cold weather was coming, and there were hard times in store for them, if they did not manage to get some sewing, or something to do.
'The word of the Lord' came to Samuel, and 'the word of Samuel came to all Israel. The one clause tells of the prophet's inspiration, the other of his message and its reception by the nation. This bond of union between the clauses has been broken by the chapter division, apparently for the sake of representing the revolt against the Philistines as due to Samuel's instigation.
Christ once more stands among the common things of life; the fire, the fish, the bread all common things; a group of tired, hungry fishers all common men; and He is there to affirm that in His resurrection He had not broken His bond with men, but strengthened it wherever common life goes on there is Jesus still.
For twenty years past the debt had been rapidly growing less and less, till on December 1, 1887, it was $1,665,000,000, a reduction of more than $1,100,000,000 in twenty-one years. By that time every bond of the United States that could be called in and paid at its face value had been canceled.
It was strange to note how quickly Sah-luma returned that glance, how thoroughly, in so short a space of time, their friendship had cemented itself into a more than fraternal bond of union! Niphrata, meanwhile, stood a little aside, her wistful looks wandering from one to the other as though in something of doubt or wonder. Presently she spoke, inclining her fair head toward Sah-luma.
For the girl who had gone before him into the room had passed to the other side of the bed, and the glance which she and her mother exchanged as the daughter leant over the couch, the message of love and protection on one side, of love and confidence on the other that message and the tone, wondrous gentle, in which the girl, so curt and abrupt below, named him these revealed a bond and an affection for which the life of his own family furnished him with no precedent.
It's the bond of kinship which you recognize, the tie of blood, and let me tell you, girl, there never was a truer saying than the old one that 'blood is thicker than water. Disguise it as you will, and bitter family feuds would sometimes seem to give it the lie, but it's a fact just the same.
But money talks, and they met. It was a way he had. But it did not frighten the old gentleman who did business in Bond Street, and the long and short of it was that the lord did not get the picture until he had paid three thousand guineas not pounds, mind you.
Benfield himself, not looking well into futurity, nor presaging the minister of this day, thought it not expedient for their common interest that such a name as his should stand at the head of their list. It was therefore agreed amongst them that Mr. Benfield should disappear, by making over his debt to Messrs. Taylor, Majendie, and Call, and should in return be secured by their bond.
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