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The Midianite interpreter had said, 'God has delivered'; Gideon says, 'The Lord has delivered. The former name is the more general, and is natural on the lips of a heathen; the latter is the covenant name, and to use it implies reliance on the Jehovah revealed by His acts to Israel.
She had not even drawn together her nightgown. "I phoned your store about you," resumed Gideon. "They said you hadn't showed up wouldn't till tomorrow. So I came round here and your landlady sent me up. I want to take you for a drive this afternoon. We can dine up to Claremont or farther, if you like." "No, thanks," said Susan. "I can't go." "Upty-tupty!" cried Gideon.
We know they contemplate a move; and we wish to forestall 'em. Down you go to Hampton Court, where they live, and threaten, or bribe, or both, until you get the letters; if you can't, God help us, we must go to court and Thomas must be exposed. I'll be done with him for one, added the unchivalrous friend. 'There seem some elements of success, said Gideon.
Above the estate, in diagonal form, and at one point crossing Fifth Avenue to the west, was the large farm of Henry Brevoort. More limited holdings, in the names of Gideon Tucker, William Hamilton, and John Morse, separate, in the map, the Brevoort property from the estates of John Mann, Jr., and Mary Mann.
'Let it for a month, said the man. 'Seems strange, don't it? Can't see what the party wants with it? 'It seems very romantic of him, I think, said Julia, 'What sort of a person is he? Julia in her canoe, the landlord in his wherry, were close alongside, and holding on by the gunwale of the houseboat; so that not a word was lost on Gideon.
In a moment, and with no signal save the baying of the hound, old Sir Gideon and his armed company had burst upon young Scott and Old Simon, and ere the former could cry for assistance, they had surrounded them.
Here, he added to the waiter, 'you take it. And, then, touching glasses, 'The health of Mr Gideon Forsyth, said he. 'Meestare Gidden Borsye, replied the waiter, and he tossed off the liquor in four gulps. 'Have another? said Michael, with undisguised interest. 'I never saw a man drink faster. It restores one's confidence in the human race.
"But suppose it's all right?" wailed Gideon. "Suppose the piano comes, and I am not here to receive it? I shall have hanged myself by my cowardice. No, Uncle Ned, inquiries must be made in Padwick; I dare not go, of course; but you may you could hang about the police office, don't you see?" "No, Gid no, my dear nephew," said Mr. Bloomfield, with the voice of one on the rack.
'And sometimes I think I hated him, when he thought of nothing but her and never at all of me.... Well, sometimes there was trouble between them, because Jane would do things and go about with people he didn't like. And especially Mr. Gideon. We none of us like Mr. Gideon at home, you know; we think he's awful. He's so rude, and has such silly opinions, and is so conceited and unkind.
Ye are the ark of Noah and the ladder of Jacob, and the troughs by which the young of those who look therein are coloured; ye are the stones of testimony and the pitchers holding the lamps of Gideon, the scrip of David, from which the smoothest stones are taken for the slaying of Goliath.
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