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If we can get Vetch interested there may be a settlement of some sort." "So it's Vetch again! Oh, I am getting so tired of the name of Gideon Vetch!" laughed Corinna. And she thought, "If only I didn't have to play on the flute all my life. If I could only stop playing dance music for a little while, and break out into a funeral march!"
Even though he might be a pauper, though he owed his learning and the very clothes in which he stood to Gideon Strong, had any man the right to demand so huge a sacrifice? He had spoken his mind and his wishes only to be crushed with cold contempt. To-day his answer had been given. What was it that Gideon Strong had said?
"It will help to build up the character of Jimson," Gideon remarked, and again waited on the muse, in various keys and on divers sheets of paper, but all with results so inconsiderable that he stood aghast. "It's very odd," thought he. "I seem to have less fancy than I thought, or this is an off-day with me; yet Jimson must leave something." And again he bent himself to the task.
'It may be the devil itself, said Gideon, disengaging himself, 'but I am going to see it. 'Don't be rash, Gid, cried his uncle. The barrister drew near to the sound, which was certainly of a portentous character. In quality it appeared to blend the strains of the cow, the fog-horn, and the mosquito; and the startling manner of its enunciation added incalculably to its terrors.
Sperver and I crossed the ante-room, where a few servants were waiting for the orders of their mistress. We had just entered the corridor when Gideon, who was walking first, turned quickly round, and, placing both his hands on my shoulders, said "Come, Fritz; I am to be depended upon for keeping a secret; what is your opinion?" "I think there is no cause of apprehension for to-night."
No one but God shall be king over these tribes." Of all the fifteen men who ruled as Judges of Israel, Gideon, the fifth Judge, was the greatest, in courage, in wisdom, and in faith in God. Now we are to learn of three judges who ruled Israel in turn. Their names were Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon. None of these were men of war, and in their days the land was quiet.
If the money had been earned he was still willing to take care of it, wasn't he? "A beggarly pittance for what he did," said Gideon Whipple, warmly. "Wouldn't do it myself for twice the amount, whatever it is," said Sharon. Very slowly, under the Whipple regard, the Merle twin poured the price of his brother's shame into his brother's cupped hands. The brother felt religious at this moment.
As they turned out of the avenue for Sherry's main entrance Susan realized that she was in Forty-fourth Street. The street where she and Spenser had lived! had lived only yesterday. No not yesterday impossible! Her eyes closed and she leaned back in the cab. Gideon was waiting to help her alight. He saw that something was wrong; it stood out obviously in her ghastly face.
Gideon, with his weather-beaten countenance, his fur cloak and cap, galloped on ahead, whistling airs from the Freyschütz; sometimes as he turned I could see the sparkling drops of moisture hanging from his long moustache. "Well, Fritz, my boy, this is a fine winter's morning." "So it is, but it is rather severe; don't you think so?"
What is Mr Finsbury's private address? asked Gideon. '233 King's Road. What brief? Where are you going? Where is the body? cried Morris, clinging to Gideon's arm. 'I have lost it myself, returned Gideon, and ran out of the station. Morris returned from Waterloo in a frame of mind that baffles description.
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