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Looking in the smooth sanguine face of the girl, noting mechanically her light eyelashes and the spaces between her teeth, he knew she lied. Yet he was a courteous gentleman, and did not report that to his inner mind. He bestowed his card upon Sapphira, and walked away at his sedate pace, more than anything puzzled. Esther was not proposing to take part in their coming drama.
And then in a little burst she added: "I said, 'Duncan, if you ask me to I WILL tell him!" "And what do you think you gain by THAT, Sapphira?" said Carey, much amused. "Why, don't you see? Don't you see it means EVERYTHING to him to have stood by me in this, and now to clear it all up between us! Don't you see that it makes him one of us, in a way? He's done his adored father a real service "
"Plinlimon: 3rd Baron," read Jones, "created 1831, Albert James, b. March 10th, 1862. O. S. of second Baron and Julia d. of J. H. Thompson of Clifton, m. Sapphira, d. of Marcus Mulhausen, educ. privately. Address The Roost, Tite Street, Chelsea." Mulhausen! He almost dropped the book. Mulhausen! Collins, his office, and that terrible family party all rose up before him.
"Well, girls," began Laura gamely, breathing a little hard. "But, mind, you must never utter a word of what I'm going to tell you. It's a dead secret, and IF you let on " "S' help me God!" "Ananias and Sapphira!" "Oh, DO hurry up." "Well ... well, he's just the most oh, I don't know how to say it, girls the MOST " "Just scrumptious, I suppose, eh?" "Just positively scrumptious, and ..."
But wait! the wheel's going down down down....Good thing I have you to hold to poor Miss Sapphira, she can't come, now! Listen at all the street-criers, getting closer, and the whistle-sounds I wish we had whistles; the squawky kind. See my element, Abbott, the air I've breathed all my life the carnival.
Three hours had scarcely elapsed since the young men had carried forth her husband, and buried him, when Sapphira, "not knowing what was done, came in." "And Peter answered unto her" answered her look of amazement as she regarded the awe-struck faces of those present "Tell me, whether ye sold the land for so much?"
Miss Sapphira gave him a look while he was struggling in his second paroxysm. It healed him by suggestion. "Turn," said Miss Sapphira with becoming gravity. Robert, still under the influence of her thought-wave, solemnly drove her from the scene. When the last buckle was clasped "I came out here for a quiet peaceable fishing," said Simon.
If a Judas insinuated himself amongst the apostles during the personal residence of Christ on earth, and under his immediate eye, it is not surprising that an Ananias and a Sapphira intruded into the earliest and best of his churches; nor should it prove unduly discouraging to his ministers or people at any period, when they witness similar instances of deceit and impiety.
Since there were not many inhabitants of Littleburg detached from housekeeping, Miss Sapphira Clinton depended for the most part on "transients"; and, to hold such in subjection, preventing them from indulging in that noisy gaiety to which "transients" are naturally inclined just because they are transitory the elderly spinster had developed an abnormal solemnity.
He says, 'All liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. 'He that speaketh lies shall not escape. He says that Satan is the father of lies, and that those who are guilty of lying are the children of that wicked one. "Have you forgotten how God punished Gehazi for lying by making him a leper, and struck Ananias and Sapphira dead for the same sin?
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