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Calling her husband up from the fields, the Shunammite woman asked him to send a servant to her with an ass, that she might ride to Elisha at Carmel and return again. The father did not know what had happened to his boy, and asked why she wished to go that day, as it was neither new moon nor Sabbath, her usual times for taking such a journey.
I've got to be goin'. There's the dinner bell now." The string of Japanese gongs, hung in the lower hall, sounded sonorously. Captain Elisha reached for his coat and hat, but Pearson caught his arm. "No, you don't!" he declared. "You're going to stay and have lunch with me here. If you say no, I shall believe it is because you are afraid of a boarding-house meal."
"She's goin' on her way with us," said Elisha. "No, no; she can't. She's bound for London," he added. "Halifax, mebbe." They waved their hats to port, and shouted in chorus at the steamer.
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Dick, above him on the white-oak trunk, could see his very eyes bloodshot and wandering. He uprose, almost sitting. He passed his hand over his staring eyes, and began to murmur: "Did you bring me here to do murder, Elisha Boone? You have bought my body, but you never bought my soul. No, no! I will not. I say I will not. Do you hear? I will not!"
The fact is, Captain, I've decided not to spend Thanksgiving with you, after all." "Hey?" Captain Elisha could scarcely believe he had heard correctly. "You can't go to South Denboro?" "No." "Why not, for the land sakes?" "Well, I've decided I've decided not to." "But, Jim! Why, I can't have it so! I'm dreadful disappointed. I've counted on your goin'. So has Abbie.
In the betting ring Grey Ghost opened at even money with Elisha at 7 to 5. The Jungle speculators went to the Curry horse with a rush that almost swept the block men off their stands, and inside of three minutes Elisha was at even money with every prospect of going to odds-on, and the grey visitor was ascending in price.
Alfred Barton stood motionless, with Mary Potter's hand on his arm. A fiery flush succeeded to his pallor; his jaw fell, and his eyes were fixed upon the floor. Ann took Gilbert's arm in a helpless, bewildered way. "Alfred, what does all this mean?" Elisha finally asked. He said nothing; Mary Potter answered for him, "It is right that he should walk with his wife rather than his sister."
They were tongues of God, his servants, who looked through heaven, and, seeing all the future, wrote what they saw, and left the writing to be proven by time. Kings turned pale as they approached them, and nations trembled at the sound of their voices. The elements waited upon them. In their hands they carried every bounty and every plague. See the Tishbite and his servant Elisha!
Nobody but a born genius could have made as many mistakes in one name as he did when he undertook to spell Elisha. Well, sir, I'm much obliged to you. Good day." The Central Club is a ponderous institution occupying a becomingly gorgeous building on the Avenue. The captain found his way to its door without much trouble.
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