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In obedience to this divine command, he made the Le´vites put on their festal garments, and then, dressed in his priestly robes, he led them down the hill to meet the advancing conqueror. When Alexander saw the beautiful procession, headed by such a dignified old man, he quickly got down from his horse, knelt before Jaddua, and worshiped the name written on his holy vestments.
"Come about, and stand a little more to the southward!" added Captain Kendall. "Let the fog-horns be blown. We may get a signal of some kind from them." "I am afraid they were lost overboard; and that there is no one left to make a signal," answered Terrill, sadly. The vessel was put about, and headed as indicated by the captain.
Picking their way through the pass, with the surf on either hand roaring in their ears, they slowly penetrated the lagoon and headed for the king's house. The shelving beach brought them to a stop, and all jumping out to lighten the boat, they drew her over the shingle and made her painter fast to a pandanus tree.
Once on dry land, they'd headed up the bluff for the only port in sight, which was the poorhouse although they didn't know it. The widow and Asaph made 'em as comfortable as they could; rigged 'em up in dry clothes which had belonged to departed paupers, and got 'em something to eat. The Lamonts was what they called "enchanted" with the whole establishment.
They came so quick that a man who headed them, and brought information to the Home Office, where Peel and the Duke were, could not, by hard running, get in advance above a minute, and they had passed the Horse Guards before the Duke, who went there by the back way from the Home Office, had got into the courtyard. He was going out at the door when the porter told him the mob was passing.
She acknowledged my father's bow, and overlooked him. She seemed to have made her courtiers smile. The ladies and gentlemen obeyed the wave of her hand by quitting the ground; the band headed a long line of the commoner sort, and a body of foresters gathered the remnants and joined them to the rear of the procession. A liveried groom led away Temple's horse and mine.
There were none of those charming little papers headed: "General Idea, White Army moving on, etc...." and: "Special Idea, the nth Infantry Brigade, commanded by, etc. etc...." The "General Idea" of this campaign remained absolute darkness; and already pessimists began to fear that Christmas would not see them back at home.
From that moment I lost all control of her. I thought: "She is headed down town. At this rate, in five minutes she will be in the thick of travel. I have so many minutes more." For how long I cannot tell, I had beyond this no other intelligent idea. Then I thought; "I should not like to be the man who has got to tell Helen."
"Come to think of it," said Linda, "I have small experience with anybody's cooking except Katy's and my own, but so far as I know, she can't very well be beaten." Carefully she headed the car into the garage adjoining the salesrooms. There she had an ovation. The manager and several of the men remembered her.
"It certainly was," agreed Betty. "They seemed afraid yes, actually afraid of us," put in Grace. "And there wasn't the least need of it," laughed Mollie. "I wouldn't have harmed one of those men oh, for anything!" "I guess not!" Amy declared. "I was all ready to run if they headed their boat back this way."
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