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'Nature, I told her, 'was the voice of God, which men disobey at peril; and if we were thus humbly drawn together, ay, even as by a miracle of love, it must imply a divine fitness in our souls; we must be made, I said 'made for one another. We should be mad rebels, I cried out 'mad rebels against God, not to obey this instinct. She shook her head.
"His word is that you should stand before him at once." Now my heart turned to water in my breast. Kings have many ears. Could he have heard? And how dared I go before the Lion bearing his living child hidden on my back? Yet to waver was to be lost, to show fear was to be lost, to disobey was to be lost. "Good! I come," I answered. And we walked to the gate of the Intunkulu. It was sundown.
"When ther panel's drawed ter try Sam we've got ter see that every man on the jury gits secretly admonished thet atter he finishes up thar, he's still got ter answer ter us an' meantime we've got ter handle some two-three offenders in sich a fashion thet men will fear ter disobey us."
"What on earth are you mounted up there for? Come down instantly. You know the row there has been about the walls getting defaced." The speaker was Gerald Yorke, who had come up silently. Openly disobey him, young Channing dared not, for the seniors exacted obedience in school and out of it. "I'll get down directly, sir. I am not hurting the wall." "What are you looking at?
Half way through my third sitting George gave a cry and flung off his coat. "What's the matter?" said I. "Something biting ? "Talk, man," he said, seizing his palette. "Just talk. Don't mind how I answer. I'm going to paint. By Jove, how I'm going to paint!" Clearly the fit was upon him. These artists! Not daring to disobey, I talked and talked. Heaven knows what I said.
"'Do not increase my misery and despair, said I to him, 'by forcing me to disobey you. It is impossible for me to follow you; and equally so that I should continue to live, after the unkind treatment I have experienced from you. I, therefore, bid you an eternal adieu.
They are under the law also who do not only so break and disobey the law, but follow after the law as hard as ever they can, seeking justification thereby that is, though a man should abstain from the sins against the law, and labour to fulfill the law, and give up himself to the law, yet if he look no further than the law he is still under the law, and for all his obedience to the law, the righteous Law of God, he shall be destroyed by that law.
The other men merely laughed, for they were strong enough themselves to recognize firmness in others, and it never occurred to them that they could disobey so absolute a command. So finally Dan started out quite alone.
And though he would not allow them to rob, disobey, or deceive him, yet he used them handsomely, paid like a prince, was a considerate master, and made them comfortable. Now Mr. Dangerfield poked up his fire and lighted his candles. Somehow, the room looked smaller he thought than it had ever seemed before.
Laius, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that there was danger to his throne and life if his new-born son should be suffered to grow up. He therefore committed the child to the care of a herdsman with orders to destroy him; but the herdsman, moved with pity, yet not daring entirely to disobey, tied up the child by the feet and left him hanging to the branch of a tree.
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