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Second pause the bell boring on, but more faintheartedly, as if doubting whether it ever would reach that nerve. Finally Western Union gave it up. "A'right. Guess I will." Clang of the gate: whine of the descending car: silence.... Softly P. Sybarite tiptoed down the stairs.
'I only hope she won't put a knife into me. I believe that she is quite capable of it. And off he started very faintheartedly, and no wonder. I sat and waited, and at the end of about forty-five minutes he returned, looking a good deal worse than when he went. 'Give me something to drink, he said hoarsely. I got him a cup of wine, and asked what was the matter. 'What is the matter?
Nor had Hepzibah ever any hardihood, except what came from the very warmest nook in her affections. All this time, however, we are loitering faintheartedly on the threshold of our story. In very truth, we have an invincible reluctance to disclose what Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon was about to do.
Do we not often think that our resources are absurdly insufficient, and so, faintheartedly make them still less? Is not His command still, 'Give ye them to eat'? Let us rise to the height of our duties and of our power, and be sure that whoever has Christ has enough for the world's hunger, and is bound to call men from 'that which is not bread, and to feed them with Him who is.
Jonah did not venture to take for granted that the charge which he had shirked was still continued to him. If God commands to take the trumpet, and we refuse, we dare not assume that we shall still be honoured with the delivery of the message. The punishment of dumb lips is often dumbness. Opportunities of service, slothfully or faintheartedly neglected, are often withdrawn.
"After that," he said, faintheartedly, for there was a sparkle in Nelly's eye which discouraged him, "we shall settle down in London, and you shall see all you want to see. There are quiet nooks and corners to be had, even in London. I think I know the one I shall choose. Be a good girl, Nelly, and go to Madame Celeste's. A garrison town is no place for you.
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