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"She's never on the look-out for nothing else, sir, asking pardon for saying it to you." Mrs. Peckaby clasped her hands together. "It'll come!" she murmured. "Sometimes, sir, when my patience is well nigh exhausted, I has a vision of the New Jerusalem in the night, and is revived. It'll come, sir, the quadruple'll come!"
After three gay seasons she had begged to return for six months to school, and see her friend Mary Grant Sister Rose before the final vows were taken. "Peter," Sister Rose echoed obediently, as the younger girl clasped her arm, making her walk slowly toward the sundial at the far end of the path. "It does sound good to hear you call me that again," Molly Maxwell said.
The answer followed instantly in these startling words: "You will be on your way to your ruin and your death." My father turned his back on the prophetess with a smile of contempt. "One!" he said, beginning to count. I set my teeth, and clasped both arms round Mary as he spoke. I had inherited some of his temper, and he was now to know it. "Two!" proceeded my father, after waiting a little.
Pao-yue forthwith paid his respects to her, and "aunt" Hsueeh, taking him by the hand, drew him towards her and clasped him in her embrace. "With this cold weather," she smilingly urged, "it's too kind of you, my dear child, to think of coming to see me; come along on the stove-couch at once! Bring some tea," she continued, addressing the servants, "and make it as hot as it can be!"
"Then I do thank God, soul and body, I thanks him," answered Ben, throwing his clasped hands aloft, "and if I was commander of the stoutest man-of-war as ever floated, I'd thank him all the same." With these words Ben disappeared in the undergrowth and proceeded in search of help.
Cherry looked at Martin daringly as she joined the labourers; her whole being was thrilling to the excitement of his glance; she was hardly conscious of what she was doing or saying. Under her father's direction she tied ropes, presently was placed with her arms clasped tightly about a great sheaf of vines, ready for the united tug. Martin came close to her, in the general confusion.
"But One is worthy of our hymn, O brothers: The Lamb on Whom the sins of all men lay." The tune was one of Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words." Upon the bench under the church wall sat a boat's crew with their gaze turned seaward. They were leaning forward and smoking, with hands clasped between their knees.
"Good-by, my dear boy. Mind how you cross again. God bless you." And Mrs. Hargreaves and Alice shook his hand, and turned to go. Nelly held hers out to him. He took it and clasped it warmly; he was loosening his hold when the girl said: "You have saved my life, Dick." "Oh, nonsense," he said. "You did, sir, and yes, I am coming, mamma" in answer to a word from her mother.
Adrian hesitated a moment. What did this mean? What accident was causing this new change of feeling in this April day of a girl? But when her sparkling blue eyes gazed at him so brightly and at the same time so plainly showed that she knew she had wronged him, he clasped the hand, and his face again wore a friendly expression.
And she clasped her hands in mute and bitter despair no actress was ever so impressive. "We must make up our minds to the worst," I said, as calmly as I could. "Then, if God sees fit to deliver us, we shall be all the more thankful. You must not believe what this ignorant and panic-stricken man tells you. Think of the thief on the cross whom Christ pardoned in dying."
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