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Are you Throwing Stones at Christ and the Christian Cause? You in the Amen Corner stand forth and answer me. Drop that catechism! release that credo! take your lips from that crucifix! Now look me in the eye and speak the words of truth and soberness: Are you a property owner? Have you buildings rented to keepers of dives and bagnios?
On the other hand, if you go to him and say: 'Mr. Dives, you are one of the few men in town who have the power to help this woman. I know she is well worthy of help, for she's having a hard struggle. Now, you had a struggle once and know what that means.
He dives under the path of his enemies as they yelp in the water, and as he goes attacks one from beneath, seizes him by the leg, and drags him down, and almost drowns him before he will let go. The air he is compelled to emit from his lungs as he travels across to another retreat shows his course on the surface, and by the bubbles he is tracked as he goes deep below.
There were several of the town's merchants and a number of cowboys new arrivals and those who had remained overnight to gamble and participate in the festivities that were all-night features of the dives. There were also the usual loafers, who constitute an element never absent in any group of idlers in any street.
He thinks himself one of the strongest a fine fellow! But I tell you he is a coward. If he is clever? Yes. But he is a poltroon. He knows well that I can flatten him out like a crepe in the frying-pan. But he is afraid. He has not as much courage as the musk-rat. You stamp on the bank. He dives. He swims away. Bah!"
But when they came near, Patroclus cast a great stone which he had in his hand, and smote Cebriones on the forehead, crushing it in, so that he fell headlong from the chariot. And Patroclus mocked him, saying, "How nimble is this man! how lightly he dives! What spoil he would take of oysters, diving from a ship, even in a stormy sea!
The banker said the last words with a tone of solemn and even dignified adjuration. "You think so do you?" said Darvil, staring at him. "From my soul I do." "Then you are not the sensible man I took you for," replied Darvil, drily; "and I should like to talk to you on that subject." But our Dives, however sincere a believer, was by no means one
This is another of the "good things" which Dives receives, for which he must be "tormented;" and this is another of the "evil things" which Lazarus receives, for which he must be "comforted." It cannot be denied, that in this world the child of God suffers more mental sorrow for sin, in a given period of time, than does the insensible man of the world.
The unpainted shanties, the huddled, tottering dives, the tumble-down express station all, even the maudlin masquerade of the High Card Saloon were institutions inseparable from his thoughts, inviolable and sacred in the measure of his love for them. And now! Something caught in his throat and gave forth a choking sound. "But I reckon it's just as well," he said resignedly.
Catherine's eyes sparkled at this observation, "And oh the sheets I lie in here," said he, "often my conscience pricketh me, and saith, 'Who art thou to lie in lint like web of snow? Dives was ne'er so flaxed as I. And to think that there are folk in the world that have all the beautiful things which I have here yet not content.
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