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I may not call this my cross, but my rod! Then came one thought: 'I came not for the righteous, but to call sinners to repentance. Therewith hot tears rose up. 'With Him there is infinite mercy and redemption. Some power of hope revived, that Mercy might give time to repent, accept the heartfelt grief that might exist, though not manifested to man!

Will he dare to continue to defy her? Can he continue to rise if she combines against him? Oh, God! If he only had more iron in his soul!" It was characteristic of him that he had forgotten his audience. He was thinking aloud, his thought leaping from point to point as they sprang into the brilliant atmosphere of his mind; or using its rapid divining rod. He threw back his head.

He was fonder of fishing than anything else, and when he could not get out to sea he passed much of his time with his rod and lines on the banks of the Squire's ponds, or on those of others in the neighbourhood.

Her inexperience conserved her own exuberant fancy, which ran riot with every straw of opportunity, making of it a golden divining rod whereby the treasure of life was to be discovered. "Let's see," said Hurstwood, "I ought to know some of the boys in the lodge. I'm an Elk myself." "Oh, you mustn't let him know I told you." "That's so," said the manager.

He went to the corner of the shop and came back with his kit, a little narrow wooden box on legs, with two places, one for nails and one for the shoeing tools, and a wooden rod above for handle and shoe-rack. He set the box beside him, took up the horse's foot, wiped it on his apron, and tried the shoe with his fingers.

The Emperor Nicholas was utterly selfish and despotic in all his instincts. He professed to take a profound interest in the cause of emancipation, but it was purely a question of policy with him. He cared nothing about human rights. His dark and cruel nature was unsusceptible of a noble or generous impulse. While he preached liberal generalities, he ruled his subjects with an iron rod.

Only a few hours ago she had talked with Galloway, watching him banter with Florrie Engle; but a little before that, earlier in the same day, she had seen Rod Norton. Before she galloped up to the old Mission garden her heart was beating excitedly, and she was asking herself, a little fearfully: "Is it Galloway or is it Rod Norton?"

"Yes, ma'am," he said, with mock submissiveness, "it looks like I do just that." Hilda went back into the room, and presently she and Ruth emerged and went out of the building. That day began their acquaintance, which was to expand into a friendship very precious to both of them and one day to be the rod and staff that sustained Ruth and kept her from despair.

"Do you know," she said, "that Maballa thinks Mukoki is just about the nicest Indian that ever lived? Oh, I'd be so glad if if " She puckered her mouth into a round, red O, and left Rod to guess the rest. It was not difficult for him to understand. "So would I," he cried. Then he added, "Muky is the best fellow on earth." "And Maballa is just as good," said the girl loyally.

And he took the wand wherewith he lulls the eyes of whomso he will, while others again he even wakes from out of sleep. With this rod in his hand flew the strong slayer of Argos. Above Pieria he passed and leapt from the upper air into the deep.