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"Things are generally doing in a cattle country where brands are easily changed and there is no official to inquire who has changed them." Fyles glanced admiringly down at Lady Jezebel's beautiful clean legs. "This Red Mask?" Tresler asked. "Exactly." "You've heard the story of his latest escapade? The murder of Manson Orr?" "From Mr. Marbolt and others.
A presentiment of the truth occurred to my mind for the first time. "Yes," I said; "and his son Fritz too." She trembled; the color that had risen in her face left it instantly; she looked away from me with a pained, humiliated expression. Doubt was no longer possible. The charming stranger was Fritz's sweetheart and "Jezebel's Daughter."
Having been routed at all points and all but sent to Jezebel's fate by Arthur Dillon, she had stolen into this paradise to do what mischief she could. Thus it happened, at the moment most favorable for Arthur's hopes, when Honora inclined towards him out of sisterly love and pity, that the two women met in a favorite haunt of Honora's, in the woods near the lake shore.
Robert Morton bit his lip and moved toward the door, but he had not got further than the sill before she whispered: "Bob!" Resolutely he held his peace. "Please be nice, Bob," she cooed. Ah, he was back again, but she had retreated behind the tall rocker. "I suppose," she observed, hurtling the words over Jezebel's sleeping form, "that your aunt will be heartbroken to miss this party.
Thus it was that though Nathan, unharmed, showed David his sin, and Elijah, the wondrous prophet of Gilead, was protected from Jezebel's fury, when he denounced her and her husband Ahab for the idolatry of Baal and the murder of Naboth; yet no Divine hand interposed to shield Zachariah, the son of Jehoiada, the high priest, when he rebuked the apostasy of his cousin, Jehoash, King of Judah, and was stoned to death by the ungrateful king's command in that very temple court where Jehoiada and his armed Levites had encountered the savage usurping Athaliah, and won back the kingdom for the child Jehoash.
The painted Jezebel fascinated Mary Hope, who had read all about that wicked woman in the Bible, and had shivered in secret at her terrible fate. Belle Lorrigan might never be eaten by dogs, since dogs are few in cattleland and are kept strictly at home, but if Mary Hope's mother was any true prophetess, the painted Jezebel's final doom would be quite as horrible.
To think of that fellow being dancing and capering at that Jezebel's house the night his baby was dying!" "Oh, but, pa, he didn't know it." "Know it? he ought to have known it! What business has a man to get a woman with a lot of babies round her, and then go capering off? 'Twasn't the way I did, Polly, you know, when our babies were young.
Then he quietly reloaded his guns, and, with the aid of a stiff horn of whisky, roused some life in his patient. He knew it would only be a feeble flicker, but while it lasted he wanted to get him on to the Lady Jezebel's back. This he contrived after considerable difficulty. The mare resented the double burden, as was only to be expected.
Mary did not enter into this controversy; she kept to her point the vindication of her own authority. "Will you," she said, "allow that they should take my sword in their hand?" a question to which Knox had his answer plain and very full, that the sword was God's, and that Jezebel's priests were not spared by Elijah nor Agag by Samuel because the royal authority was in their favour.
With this, I commend "Jezebel's Daughter" to my good friend and brother in the art who will present this last work also to the notice of Italian readers. Gloucester Place, London: February 9, 1880. In the matter of Jezebel's Daughter, my recollections begin with the deaths of two foreign gentlemen, in two different countries, on the same day of the same year.
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