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You were the glory of the world will you be its by-word? You were its example will you be its warning? Rise, while it is yet time! clear your roads from the bandits that infest them! your walls from the hirelings that they harbour! Banish these civil discords, or the men how proud, how great, soever who maintain them!

He denounced the cowardice which could permit this band of hirelings to retire with so much jewelry, merchandize, and plate, the result of their robberies.

Then she sailed regally across the room and down the stairs, drawing Theron in her train. The hirelings made salaams to him as well; it would have been impossible to interpose anything so trivial and squalid as talk about terms and dates of payment. "I am ever so much obliged to you," he said fervently, in the comparative solitude of the lower floor.

Something about the "threatening bayonets of Federal hirelings" at the foot of the first page promised lively developments farther on, and recalled vividly the editorials in similar strain that had been brought to the attention of the officials at head-quarters, more than one of whom had expressed the belief that they could spot the author on sight.

The man he sought had moved into the Poor House, so he compromised by expressing his typewritten Masterpiece to a Ringmaster whose name he had seen on the Three Sheets. It was marked, "Valuable Package." In a few months the hirelings of the Company and the Driver of the Wagon became well acquainted with the Large Envelope containing the only Hope of the present decadent Period.

And going from thence a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, and others in the vessel mending the nets. And immediately he called them: and leaving their father Zebedee in the vessel with the hirelings, they went after him. And they entered into Capernaum; and immediately on the sabbath going into the synagogue, he taught.

Thus the promise of Christ shall evermore be verified. But hirelings and wolves do not believe this promise. They are either entangled with some temporal employment to secure their support, or else must know what they are to have from a general fund before they go forth to labor in the Lord's vineyard.

Functionaries flocked to Edelweiss to inquire after the welfare of the Princess, and indignation was at the highest pitch. There were theories innumerable as to the identity of the arch-conspirator. Baron Dangloss was at sea completely. He cursed himself and everybody else for the hasty and ill-timed execution of the hirelings.

"Unless I can make my escape by water, I shall never make it," said Manual, with another sympathetic movement with his hand to his throat. "Keep mute; you need tell me nothing. I can see into a mystery that is as deep as a well, to-night. Your companions are hirelings; perhaps your shipmates; or men to pilot you on this expedition!"

That fifty-story building they tell about, in their big city what is it but another Tower of Babel? And these silly, stuck-up strangers who brag and brag about "modern improvements" what are they, under their fine manners and fine clothes? Hirelings all. Shrewdly he observes them in their relations to each other.