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In this state they were carried to the entering-port, and cast into the sea. "Monster!" cried the bishop, as he heard the splash, "thou wilt have a heavy reckoning for this." "Now bring these forward," said Cain, with a savage voice. The bishop and his niece were led to the gangway.
Like all his brotherhood of Cain, Pierre le Rouge pressed forward across the mountain-desert with his face turned toward the brave tomorrow. In the evening of his life, if he should live to that time, he would walk and talk with God. Now he had no mind save for the bright day coming. He had been riding with the wind and had scarcely noticed its violence in his headlong course.
'I believe that you state the truth, Captain Cain, for you are too bold to lie; and, as far as I am concerned, you have all the forgiveness you may wish: but I cannot take that hand; nor are our accounts yet settled. 'What would you more? Cannot we be friends again? I do not ask you to remain on board. You are free to go where you please.
Returning to earth, we have a pastoral, of which Sir Egerton Brydges justly and sufficiently remarks, "The censorious may say what they will, but there are speeches in the mouth of Cain and Adah, especially regarding their child, which nothing in English poetry but the 'wood-notes wild' of Shakespeare, ever equalled."
Take this to heart, ye children of Cain who eat doubloons and micturate water.
In "Cain" the younger, brother's offering is burnt up with supernatural fire, while the elder's altar remains unkindled; whereupon Cain inveighs against God's partiality, and denounces the bloody sacrifice which finds greater favor than his own peaceful tribute of fruit and flowers.
'Every rainy spring we are told that all the young birds have been drowned, or that the grouse-disease has decimated the fathers and mothers, and that we shall have nothing to shoot; but when August comes the birds are there all the same. 'It is the nature of mankind to complain, said Hammond. 'Cain and Abel were the first farmers, and you see one of them grumbled.
You've been well bred, as I said, and that's enough for me. You're more than of age I can see that but it's my opinion you need a father. Will you take me?" The young man drew in his breath sharply through quivering lips, and made answer with averted head: "Cain! Cain and the curse of Cain! Can I allow another to share it?" "Another shares it and you have no choice." "I will be more than a son.
This man therefore, so far as can be gathered, was the first that put check to the outrage of Cain and his company. But mark some observations about him. He was set in the stead or place of Abel; not an inch behind him, but even at the place where his blood was spilt. So that he that will revive lost religion, must avow it as God's Abels have done before him: every talker cannot do this.
Billie found herself sitting up in bed humming: "'Oh, come to the stable, As soon as you're able And feed the horses grain. If you don't do it The Captain will know it And raise particular Cain."
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