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If he was asked for a loan of money, to be used for business purposes, and the borrower promised to give a part of his profits to the poor, he would demand no security beyond a mere signature. And if it happened that by some mischance or other the debtor was not able to discharge his obligation, Job would return the note to him, or tear it into bits in his presence.
Whenever any agreement had for its object the delivery of a specific thing and this is the case with the large majority of simple engagements the Obligation was drawn down as soon as the delivery had actually taken place.
So, though strongly suspected, Jean sped on her way unopposed. McClure put the incident away in the pigeon-holes of his memory. It might be useful some day. He thought deeply upon the affair which now delayed Royalty and, incidentally, was stopping his business. If he could put the son of the King under a great obligation he might at one stroke make his fortune and save his life.
It was the opinion of the United States that the mere release of the flour to qualified owners did not meet the obligation in the case because the owners could not possibly take the delivery of the flour owing to the obstacles of war at the points where the goods lay.
Nay, there have been those so zealous for some glorious principle as to wish themselves blotted out of the book of Heaven if the cause of Heaven could succeed. And out of this mysterious quality, whatever it be, arise the higher relations of human life, the higher modes of human obligation.
He meant to pay every cent he had borrowed to secure, by some position that would supply the bare necessities of life, time and opportunity for developing the talent he secretly believed was his. He was prepared, once loose from obligation to old William Truedale, to starve and prove his faith. And then his breakdown had come!
He remained at the Sawdust Pile a period barely sufficient for Nan to express her sense of obligation. "In a month, my dear girl," he whispered, as he took her hand, "you'll have had time to adjust yourself and decide on the future. Then we'll have a little talk." She smiled bravely up at him through misty eyes and shook her head. She read his thoughts far better than he knew.
To invoke them is as much an honor to them as an advantage to us. If certain individuals do not like this kind of a thing, they are under no sort of an obligation to practise it. If they can get to heaven without the assistance of the saints, then let them do so, by all means; only let them be sure to get there.
Although his advice on the subject had not been asked, he expressed his sense of obligation to speak his mind on the subject, preferring the hazard of being censured for his remonstrance, to that of incurring the suspicion of connivance at the desolation of the land by his silence.
'Really! she petitioned. 'Really yes, or no? added the Countess. 'So unaccountable a whim! Caroline looked in the glass dolefully, and pulled up her thick locks from one cheek, letting them fall on the instant. 'She will? breathed the Countess. 'I really cannot, said Caroline, with vehemence. The Countess burst into laughter, replying: 'My poor child! it is not my whim it is your obligation.
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