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Then the incident of the man born blind but now blessedly given his sight leads to the bitterest opposition thus far, and the casting of the man out from all religious privileges; and is followed by the rare bit of sheepfold and shepherd teaching. These four incidents make up the second great outstanding group of incidents, and mark the sharpest clash and crisis thus far.
Then there was a wild storm of falling blows, the clash of sword and axe, furious shouts, loud death cries, a very turmoil of strife; when there was a cry at the door of "The watch!" and then a loud command: "Cut the knaves down! Slay every man! Dort! Dort!" There was a rush now to escape.
L'illustre Bassa was a romance of Scudéri; and the passage in the epistle to which Dorothy refers, we quote it from a translation by one Henry Cogan, 1652, runs as follows: "And if you see not my hero persecuted with love by women, it is not because he was not amiable, and that he could not be loved, but because it would clash with civility in the persons of ladies, and with true resemblance in that of men, who rarely show themselves cruel unto them, nor in doing it could have any good grace."
"All save two, my brother," comes the answer, sounding above the clash of steel and the sound of smitten shields. Now the Wolf would come to him, but cannot, for his life ebbs. "Fare you well, my brother! Death is good! Thus, indeed, I would die, for I have made me a mat of men to lie on," he cried with a great voice. "Fare you well! Sleep softly, Wolf!" came the answer. "All save one!"
Then rose the rumour loud and angry mingled with the rattle of swords and the clash of spears on shields; but Fox said: "Needs must ye follow one of these three ways. Nay, what say I? there are but two ways and not three; for if ye flee they shall follow you to the confines of the earth.
"Dearest," she pleaded, "if you will sit down and resume your gnawing on that crust, I'll promise not to torment you. . . . I will, really. Besides, it's within a few minutes of my tour of duty " She stopped, petrified, as a volley of hoof-beats echoed outside, the clash of arms and accoutrements rang close by the porch. "Phil!" she gasped. And the door opened and Colonel Arran walked in.
When I had ended he said, "You'll wear the hat I provide." For the first time in my life I defied him. "I will not," I said. "And you can't make me." He seized me by the arm and for a moment we faced each other in silent clash of wills. I was desperate now. "Don't you strike me," I warned. "You can't do that any more." His face changed. His eyes softened.
He drank to drown care, as he would have himself expressed it: and he was infidel so far as he had never yet found any form of faith to which he could attach himself, heart and soul. Margaret was a little surprised, and very much pleased, when she found her father and Higgins in earnest conversation each speaking with gentle politeness to the other, however their opinions might clash.
His prayers to God; his spoken thanks to the God of Victory, who had preserved him safe, and carried him forward so far, through the furious clash of a world all set in conflict, through desperate-looking envelopments at Dunbar; through the death-hail of so many battles; mercy after mercy; to the "crowning mercy" of Worcester Fight: all this is good and genuine for a deep-hearted Calvinistic Cromwell.
Her brother, whom he was coaching in his county duties, was far too much inclined to bring him home to luncheon; and in the clash and crisis, without any one's quite knowing how it happened, it turned out that Mrs. Evelyn had been so imprudent as to sanction an attachment between her daughter and that great lout of a young doctor, Lady Fordham's brother!
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