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She went down and found her daughter crying violently. What was the matter? She was in anxiety about her soul an anxiety that found no relief short of the cross. Word came that David was at the barn in great agony. Grandmother went and found him on the barn floor, praying for the life of his soul.
The thirty-second Psalm tells us how happy David had been during that twelvemonth, of which he says, 'My bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Hardly knowing what he did, he rushed at them and beat them off. Then suddenly turning faint, for his heart was troublesome, he retired into the grove, and lay there helpless for a time. He recovered only to hear the carriage drive away, leaving quiet behind it. To see that woman in the house of his fathers, was a terrible shock to him. Could it be that David had married her?
It is not because I have pushed the case unduly against James; for that, I am sure of condonation. And it is not because I have sequestered Mr. David on a rock, though it will pass under that colour; but because I did not take the ready and plain path, to which I was pressed repeatedly, and send Mr. David to his grave or to the gallows.
None knew what to do. He was not a leper, and he was armed." "Leave him with me," said David. Ebn Ezra hesitated. "He is armed; he was thy foe " "I am armed also," David answered enigmatically, and indicated by a gesture that he wished to be left alone.
Politeness took me; but of course, to take Davy, it would have to be a most extraordinary and uncommon sort of politeness. I can hardly believe my eyes yet." "You always said Mr. Richmond was a brick, Norton," said Matilda. "Yes, but you never heard me say David Bartholomew was another, did you?" "Well, but he is, Norton." "He is! Phew! that's news."
For Francis had told David how he stood with Kirsty, and how, while refusing him, she had shown him his duty to his mother.
She was trying to determine whether to blossom out in pink, or to be crushed and set aside into insignificance in blue, or to choose a happy medium and wear neither. She ventured a timid little question before David went away again: Did he, would he,—that is, was there any thing,—any word he would like to say to her? Would she have to do anything to-night? David looked at her in surprise. Why, no!
It had suddenly become a prison to him; he longed to escape from it. So, then, David must be taken away or the boy would draw him back; but the question was, where should he carry the child? He thought instantly of his sister, who was married to a man in comfortable circumstances living at Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides, and he resolved to take David to her.
The next morning, David was afraid to go to school, apprehending the severe punishment he might get from the master. He therefore left home as usual, but played truant, hiding himself in the woods all day. He did the same the next morning, and so continued for several days. At last the master sent word to John Crockett, inquiring why his son David no longer came to school.
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