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Then he set out at once on his homeward journey and travelled till he came to Damascus, where he halted and pitched his tents as before, saying to his suite, "We will halt here a week, to buy presents and curiosities for the Sultan."
From the solitudes beyond the Jordan, as he walked with Elisha, talking as they went, the chariot and horses of fire which the Father had sent for his illustrious servant from heaven bore him homeward, while his friends and disciples stood with outstretched hands, crying: The chariot and horses of Israel are leaving us, bearing away our most treasured leader.
We'll give him the table that we had made for Johnny Cass. Poor Johnny! I am sorry he has a successor so soon." In five minutes I was taking my homeward walk, mind and heart full of my elfish visitor, with his strange and ancient thoughts, his sharp speeches and queer fancies.
When we had emerged from the woods and had reached Montreal on the homeward trip I enticed my friend upon a penny-in-the-slot weighing machine in the Montreal station and I observed what he weighed; and then when he stepped aside I unostentatiously weighed myself, and in the box score credited myself with a profound shock; also with an error, which should have been entered up a long time before that.
Lydia blushed vividly "I I often skate home. I live three miles down the shore." "Rather thought I'd have a try myself, if you don't mind." "Heavens!" thought Lydia. "I hope he won't come clear home with me? The house looks awful!" Willis fastened on his skates and stood up. "Which way?" he asked. Lydia nodded homeward and started off silently, the Harvard man close beside her.
It is the stupendous creation of those humble unlettered, un-college-bred inventors all honor to their name. "How grand that is!" said Tracy, as he wended homeward.
A prospect of supplies for twelve months, counting the hack and carriage Henrietta had always been used to, seemed about as far as it was required to look by the husband hastening homeward to his wife's call. Her letter was a call in the night. Besides, there were his yet untried Inventions.
"I wonder, now, if somebody has been there and stolen them?" he muttered, resuming his homeward tramp; "this thing ought not to stop, and it seems to me Hank takes big chances in leaving the blankets and ponies where some of these Indians can steal them." Jack had still to leap the canyon in order to reach his destination, but the task had become an easy one and caused him no anxiety.
But I will not answer for the consequences. 'What do you mean? said I. He made no reply, went away, and I came back to my room. April 20. Milan, 10.30 p.m. We are thus far on our way homeward. I, being decidedly de trop, travel apart from the rest as much as I can. Having dined at the hotel here, I went out by myself; regardless of the proprieties, for I could not stay in.
For a moment an awful confusion had the mastery, and then suddenly a clear light broke into his eyes, his face flushed healthily and shone, his arms went up, and there rang in his ears the words: "Then I think, with bitter pain, Shall we ever meet again When the swallows homeward fly?" "Alice! Alice!" he called, and tottered forward up the aisle, followed by John Bickersteth.
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