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One morning, just as Obadiah was sitting down, his eldest son came in with the information that neighbour Dood's heifer had broken down the fence, entered the yard, and after eating most of the cabbages, had trampled the well-made beds and the vegetables they contained, out of all shape a mischief impossible to repair. "And what did thee do with her, Jacob?" quietly asked Obadiah.
"We wouldn't fight, eh?" exclaimed Obadiah in scorn "what do you say to the Hogue?" "Yes, den you fought well dat was good." "And shall I tell you why we fought well at the Hogue, you Dutch porpoise just because we had no Dutchmen to help us." "And shall I tell you why the Dutch were beat off this Head? because the English wouldn't come down to help us."
The fear of the Lord, as I have showed you, is a grace of the new covenant, as other saving graces are, and so is capable of being stronger or weaker, as other graces are. Wherefore I beseech you, fear him more and more. It is said of Obadiah, that he feared the Lord greatly: every saint fears the Lord, but every saint does not greatly fear him.
Among the men not mentioned elsewhere, who advocated woman suffrage in the face of criticism and with no advantage to be gained, were Judge William Penn Whitehouse and Obadiah Gardner of Augusta; Leonard A. Pierce of Portland; L. B. Dessy of Bar Harbor; E. C. Reynolds of South Portland.
He hastened for a policeman, and this was how the party came to be arrested and brought before Judge Obadiah. Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he would have seen the detective settled in a corner of the courtroom, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood; for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez.
Slop, the man-midwife's house: and that whilst Obadiah has been going those said miles and back, I have brought my uncle Toby from Namur, quite across all Flanders, into England: That I have had him ill upon my hands near four years; and have since travelled him and Corporal Trim in a chariot-and-four, a journey of near two hundred miles down into Yorkshire. all which put together, must have prepared the reader's imagination for the entrance of Dr.
They looked into each other's face, Nathaniel with all the eagerness of the passion with which Marion had stirred his soul, Neil half doubting, as if he were trying to find in this man's eyes the friendship which he had not questioned a few minutes before. "Obadiah told you nothing?" he asked again, as if still unbelieving. "Nothing." "And you have not seen Marion to talk with her?" "No."
Judge Obadiah had unfortunately caught Passepartout's rash exclamation, which the poor fellow would have given the world to recall. "The facts are admitted?" asked the judge. "Admitted," replied Mr. Fogg, coldly.
Have you not been told what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred by fifties in a cave and fed them continually with bread and water?" Elijah answered, "As surely as Jehovah of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will show myself to Ahab to-day." So Obadiah went to Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
What great calamity, what fearful vengeance, was about to come upon the Mormon kingdom? Was it possible that the fishermen and settlers of the mainland had risen, as Obadiah had said, and were already at hand to destroy Strang and his people? The thought spurred him to the door. The blood rushed like fire through his veins. What would it mean to Marion to Neil?
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