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"But she is simply the most beautiful creature I ever saw in my life. All the time I was listening to her I thought of all those fair women the old patriarchs loved Sarah and Rebekah and Rachel; but I think she is most like Rebekah." "I daresay you are right there," replied Malcolm coolly "I can imagine myself that Leah Jacobi would be equally clever at deception." "For shame, Mr.
Your name is cleared: they only want to ask your forgiveness for all you have suffered. It was a foul conspiracy of two women to save themselves by ruining you. Leah has made full confession. Your cousin Etta took the cheque out of your brother's desk. 'Oh, my God! he gasped, and, sitting down, he hid his face in his hands. The little fox-terrier jumped on his knee and began licking his hands.
Yonowsky had grown daily more silent and morose, and Leah had been less and less able to cope with "them devil boys." A room high up in a swarming tenement had been the grave of her youth and pleasure.
Suddenly the sound of her mother's voice reached her from an adjoining room, and arrested her attention. Involuntarily she listened. "Yes, dear husband, Leah is anxious to go-unhappy even, at the fear of being denied." "You surprise me, Rebecca," replied the fond husband and father; "I never dreamed that Leah desired to visit Europe. She has never mentioned it to me." "No, nor will she ever.
God remembered the tears she had shed when she prayed that her doom, chaining her to that recreant Esau, be averted from her, and so wondrous are the uses of prayer that Leah, besides turning aside the impending decree, was permitted to marry Jacob before her sister and be the first to bear him a child. There was another reason why the Lord was compassionately inclined toward Leah.
It was the custom of that time to give the older daughter the older handmaid, and the younger daughter the younger handmaid, as their dowry, when they got married. Now, in order to make Jacob believe that his wife was the younger daughter he had served for, Laban had given Leah the younger handmaid as her marriage portion.
But Leah was honest, because she had been taught that honesty is the best policy; and as she had her living to earn, it was extremely necessary that she should be guided by the axiom, or she might come to poverty and want bread, like others she saw, who lost good situations from failing in this particular.
I know you love my girls especially Marjorie." "I love them both," was the quick reply. "Linnet is older, she ought to have the first chance." Miss Prudence thought, but did not say, "As Laban said about Leah," she only said, "I do not object to that. We do Marjorie no injustice. This is Linnet's schooltime.
There were once, it would seem, as on the royal porch of Notre Dame at Paris and the southern porch at Reims, the figures of the Synagogue and the Church; also Leah and Rachel, typifying the active and the contemplative life, of which we shall decipher the details recorded in the archivolt.
I felt that I must either obtain possession of her or tell her father not to send her into my room any more. The Turin Jewess had given me some valuable hints as to the conduct of amours with Jewish girls. My theory was that Leah would be more easily won than she, for at Ancona there was much more liberty than at Turin. This was a rake's reasoning, but even rakes are mistaken sometimes.
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