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Your father and mother lived and died poor folk; you were poorly reared; and in the meanwhile, what a time it has been for the tenants on the estate of Shaws! Ebenezer!" "And yet that is certainly the strangest part of all," said I, "that a man's nature should thus change." "True," said Mr. Rankeillor. "And yet I imagine it was natural enough. He could not think that he had played a handsome part.
Bruce had never sent any word since the conditions of the failure had been made plain to him, when he had resigned his position, refused the salary due him, and left Old Trail Town. Clearly, Ebenezer could make no inquiry under those circumstances, he told himself. They had cut themselves off from him, definitely.
Before the machinery could be stopped, some fathoms of cable had become entangled among the wheels and destroyed. This part having been cut out, however, and new splices made, the paying-out process was resumed. "I'll turn in now and have a snooze, Robin," said Ebenezer Smith, "and you had better do the same; you look tired."
"Don't forget to put the 'g's' on your 'ing's, and remember always to say 'your' quite plainly," she whispered. "I will," Tessibel promised. By this time, they had entered the crowded reception hall, and the squatter girl's heart leapt into her throat when Ebenezer Waldstricker came forward to meet them. He welcomed Helen Young tenderly, taking her hands in his.
Further, the memory of defeat may be the parent of the hope of victory. The stone Ebenezer, 'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us, was set up to commemorate a victory that had been won on the very site where Israel, fighting the same foes, had once been beaten. There is no remembrance of failure so mistaken as that which takes the past failure as certain to be repeated in the future.
Shut the door, Uncle Ebenezer, said she, and he went out and shut it. "And before I could say Jack Robinson she was dragging me into the next room, and pushing me out of a door at the back. "'Go hurry up oh, go! she begged. 'I won't let them take you. "Well, I didn't like to leave her suddenly like that, so I said, said I: 'What's the hurry? I want to tell you something.
"My friends would doubtless keep your nephew as long as there was any likelihood of siller to be made of it, but if there was nane, I am clearly of opinion they would let him gang where he pleased, and be damned to him!" "Ay, but I'm no very caring about that either," said my uncle. "I wouldna be muckle made up with that." "I was thinking that," said Alan. "And what for why?" asked Ebenezer.
Ebenezer has nearly every man around looking for her, ... searching every barn and asking at every house.... Darling, do you think you could stay here with Madelene and let me go out, too?" "Yes, yes, go, but Oh, God, I shall die if you don't find her!" Hour after hour men on horseback and men on foot hunted through the hills and gullies for little Elsie Waldstricker.
But no one heeded what Ebenezer Brown said, so notorious was he in the town for a love of money and a bitter tongue. The doctor accepted the speech as a challenge, and entered the room defiantly, while Father Healy followed him. "You didn't expect to find me here," said the old man, who sat in an armchair, a thin, stooped figure, with a pallid face and white hair.
Edward, out of patience, hemmed in and hustled by the rabble on every side, and every moment expecting personal violence, resolved to try measures of intimidation, and at length drew a pocket-pistol, threatening, on the one hand, to shoot whomsoever dared to stop him, and, on the other, menacing Ebenezer with a similar doom if he stirred a foot with the horses.
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