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"One minute," interrupted Arkwright in a voice so strange that Joshua paused and stared at him. "I can't talk to you about that." "Why not?" "For many reasons. The chief one Fact is, Josh, I've acted like a howling skunk about you with her. I ran you down to her; tried to get her myself." Craig waved his hand impatiently. "You didn't succeed, did you? And you're ashamed of it, aren't you?
National covenants with men before God, do oblige posterity, as Israel's covenant with the Gibeonites, Josh. ix. 15, 19. The breach whereof was punished in the days of David, 2 Sam. xxi. 1.
I s’pose they’ve told you all about Josh, so I needn’t make b’lieve any—but come in—the house looks better inside than it does out." "Ho, Luce," continued he, "where the old boy is your mistress? Tell her thar’s heaps of folks here, and mind tell Aunt Judy to get us up a whalin’ dinner." Here he stopped to take breath for a moment, and then proceeded.
We are told in the book of Joshua that 'Joshua took a great stone and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord; and in Judges , 'There came an angel of the Lord and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah. Malcolm, you may read Second Samuel, eighteenth chapter, ninth verse." Josh. xxiv. 26. Judg. vi. Malcolm read: "'And Absalom met the servants of David.
She replied: "Yes indeed it is! I found your sister all alone, and she begged me to stay until she got the children in bed." Mrs. Cox came in at this moment, looking very angry. "Where have you been all this time? You ought to know better than to leave me all alone. Josh. has gone out with Rivers, and I believe they must be drinking. I am angry with Rivers.
It ain't right nor religious," said Uncle Josh, knocking the ashes out of his pipe ... he smoked and chewed in relays. Paul replied nothing. "Come on, folks," put in Rachel, "supper's ready ... draw your chairs up to the table." We ate our supper under a quiet, grey mood.
Ten minutes later Josh declared he had caught a glimpse of the sun shining on dancing wavelets; and shortly afterwards a sudden turn brought them in full view of the pond. It was hardly more than that, covering perhaps ten acres; but the boys declared they had never set eyes on a prettier sight as they arrived on the near shore, and proceeded to make a camp there.
He might explain all the obvious reasons why Margaret would never deign to condescend to him; Josh would dismiss them with a laugh at Arkwright's folly. He hid his rage as best he could, and said with some semblance of genial sarcasm: "So all you've got to do is to ask her and she's yours?" Craig gave him a long, sharp, searching look. "Old man," he said earnestly, "do you want her?"
You can catch a wild animal in a trap, but to whip it would be sacrilege ... that might do for domesticated animals. "Josh never laid a hand on her, though, that night ... she never came home ... men are so awful in their pride, Johnnie ... don't you be like that when you grow to be a man...." Then Aunt Rachel said no more, as Paul came in at that moment. Nor did she resume the subject.
Captain Josh said if ever she got into an accident it would be the first thing that would get smashed, 'cos it's so long, and is always poking into other people's affairs." The three men looked keenly at the boy, and then at one another, while the faint semblance of a smile lurked about the corners of their mouths. "We must get her home at once," one of them remarked.
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