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He consented to Sarah's marriage with William Elton, and offered a liberal dowry on the condition that she should yield to the wish of Elton himself, an adventurous young man, who desired to try his fortunes in the New World. His daughter he must remove elsewhere. While this was going on, Alice's child, long delicate and drooping, became seriously ill.
"Sarah must learn she can not do as she pleases and escape the consequences," he said to Rosemary, who came to him on Sarah's behalf. "Half way measures don't go with her, I find, so I've had to be drastic. I'm sorry, too, Rosemary, but I believe I am making the future easier for one strong-willed little girl."
Gladsome, surrounded by torches, Ramses, in company with Tutmosis, approached Sarah's dwelling. At sight of him Gideon said to Tafet, "Great is my alarm for my daughter, but still greater my wish to avoid Prince Ramses." He sprang over the wall, and amid darkness through gardens and fields he held on in the direction of Memphis. "Be greeted, O beauteous Sarah!" cried Tutmosis in the courtyard.
All was peaceful and serene, and when Mell said good-by she surprised herself by feeling quite sorry to go, and kissed Gabella Sarah's small face with tears in her eyes. Grandmother was just such a dear old woman as one reads about in books. Her cheeks were all criss-crossed with little wrinkles, which made her look as if she were always smiling. Her forehead was smooth, her eyes kind and blue.
Of course, the lovers' meetings were as private as all such matters generally are; and Sarah's aid managed them admirably. Therefore it now came to pass that Simon and Jonathan looked on each other in mutual astonishment, and needs must wait until Grace Acton could explain the "save me." Not but that Jennings seemed much as if he wished to run away; but he did not know how to manage it.
The pitiful answering cry grew louder and nearer; finally Ann could distinguish Hannah's voice. Wild with joy, she came, at last, upon her sitting on a fallen hemlock-tree, her pretty face pale, and her sweet blue eyes strained with terror. "O, Hannah!" "O, Ann!" "How did you ever get here, Hannah?" "I started for aunt Sarah's that morning," explained Hannah, between sobs.
'Noo, said John, when a hackney coach had been called, and the ladies and the luggage hurried in, 'gang to the Sarah's Head, mun. 'To the VERE? cried the coachman. 'Lawk, Mr Browdie! interrupted Miss Squeers. 'The idea! Saracen's Head. 'Sure-ly, said John, 'I know'd it was something aboot Sarah's Son's Head. Dost thou know thot? 'Oh, ah!
"I did not think out all this fifty years ago, neither were the tastes of that excellent housemaid, Sarah, quite on a level with those of which I have spoken; but I remember feeling the full comfort of the fact that Sarah's love for friendly gossip was quite as ardent as mine for romantic discovery; that she was disposed to linger quite as long to chat as I to explore; and that she no more expected me to sit wearily through her kitchen confidences, than I imagined that she would give a long afternoon to sharing my day-dreams in the gardens of the deserted manor.
Very soon they ungirded their swords and arrayed themselves in their most exquisite garments. The change was the more indispensable as Ramses brought some of them to Sarah's dwelling and showed his son to them. "See, Tutmosis," said he once to his favorite, "what a pretty child: a real rose leaf! Well, and out of this little thing a man will grow gradually.
May He be pleased to anoint her for these sacred duties." Her impressions may be accounted for by the influence of Sarah's feelings regarding herself, and as there was then no other field of public usefulness open to women, especially among the Quakers, than the ministry, her mind naturally settled upon that as her prospective work.
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