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Who told you she was a bad woman? One of the Scripture-readers, I suppose! I knew it was. Well, then, just get out of my house." "Where shall I go?" "Go to hell for all I care. Do you hear me? Get out!" Esther did not move words, and then blows. Esther's escape from her stepfather seemed a miracle, and his anger was only appeased by Mrs. Saunders promising that Esther should accept the situation.
These gentlemen, most of them scripture-readers, not conversant with any trade, and striving but for one object, the conversion of the Falashas, or native Jews, declined to work for Theodore. The Emperor could not understand their refusal. According to his notions every European could work in some way or the other.
But they all said that his 'word was with power, and there was many a moist eye amongst them as he warned them, in language made even more forcible than usual by the events of the day, against the pleasures and vices of the world. After the service many of the school teachers and Scripture-readers met him in the vestry to have their work allotted, and their word of advice and encouragement.
What with the aid of the Scripture-readers, the various nursing and charitable sisterhoods, and the young medical accoucheurs in their fourth year, with whom I scraped acquaintance, I got to be quite well known in Gee's Court and could go about in safety.
Saunders and her husband was her attendance at prayer-meetings when he said she should be at home minding her children. He used to accuse her of carrying on with the Scripture-readers, and to punish her he would say, "This week I'll spend five bob more in the public that'll teach you, if beating won't, that I don't want none of your hypocritical folk hanging round my place."
Valuable time has been lost; but clergymen are never good men of business, and Scripture-readers are like them, I suppose." "Jim, I don't like to hear you speak like that; it's ungrateful. And what you mean by valuable time I can't conceive."
She too had a favourite district, which was in London, and where also a great work was going on; and her missionary, and her Scripture-readers, and her colporteur were all in a wonderful state of excitement about a new gin-palace which was being fitted out and decorated in the highest style of art on the borders of their especial domain.
I'm not full fledged of course, but on the principle, I fancy, that `half a loaf is better than no bread, I've been sent here after goin' through a short course o' trainin' in surgery also in divinity; something like city missionaries and Scripture-readers; not that trainin', much or little, would fit any man for the great work unless he had the love of the Master in his heart.
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