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"Good night, Japhet; if I have any intelligence I will let you know. Lady de Clare's address is Number 13, Park Street. You will, of course, go there as soon as you can." "I will, sir, after I have written my letters to my friends at Reading." I returned home to reflect upon what Mr Masterton had told me, and I must say that I was not very well pleased with his various information.
God hath persuaded Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem; and so we are now the Judah and Jerusalem, and our ministers the sons of Levi. God’s own church and people, even the best of them, have need of this refiner’s fire and of this fuller’s soap. And so much for the scope, sense, and coherence of the text. The general doctrine which offereth itself to us from the words, is this:—
"I am no more a sailor than you are, Japhet, and since you left me have never yet seen the salt water, which I talk and sing so much about." "Then thou hast been deceiving, Timothy, which I regret much." "Now I do perceive that you are a Quaker," replied Tim; "but do not blame me until you have heard my story. Thank God, I have found you at last.
The servant knocked, and I went in as soon as the door was opened. Susannah and Mrs Cophagus were sitting in the room. "Susannah," said I, "I know you do not like to walk out, so I thought, perhaps, you would have no objection to take an airing in the carriage; my father has lent it to me. Will you come? it will do you good." "It is very kind of you, Japhet, to think of me; but "
"There, sir, is, I am afraid, the difficulty; she will not yield a point in which she thinks she is right, not even for her love for me." "I agree with you that she will not, and I admire her for it; but, Japhet, she will yield to conviction, and depend upon it, she will abandon the outward observances of her persuasion.
But I saw that Maqueda was trembling, for she, too, thought this occurrence a very bad omen, and even Oliver remained silent, perhaps because he feared its effect upon the Abati. Nor was this wonderful since, from the talk around us, clearly that effect was great. Evidently the people were terrified, like Japhet.
"Japhet," replied Mr Cophagus; "um, scriptural Shem, Ham, um and so on. Boy reads?" "Very well, and writes a very good hand. He is a very good boy, Mr Cophagus." "Read write spell good, and so on.
Of the three sons of Javan also, the son of Japhet, Elisa gave name to the Eliseans, who were his subjects; they are now the Aeolians. Tharsus to the Tharsians, for so was Cilicia of old called; the sign of which is this, that the noblest city they have, and a metropolis also, is Tarsus, the tau being by change put for the theta.
"Good God!" thought I, "who, of all the world of fashion who, of all those who once caught my salutation so eagerly who, of all those worldly-minded girls, who smiled upon me but one short twelve months since, would imagine, or believe, that Japhet Newland could ever have sunk so low and how has he so fallen?
With respect to the relative position of Japhet and Ham perhaps I should say Ham and Japhet ultra-philanthropy has granted all the aspirations of the Ethiopian melodist: wish de legislator would set dis darkie free; Oh, what a happy place den de darkie world would be! We'd have a darkie parliament, An' darkie code of law, An' darkie judges on de bench, Darkie barristers and aw.
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