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And by and by he would find a house where there were children old enough to be taught their letters, and Mr. Trigg would be hired by the month, like a shepherd or cowherd, to teach them, living with the family. He would go on very well for a time, his failings being condoned for the sake of the little ones; but by and by there would be a falling-out, and Mr.
Never had he felt so light and active, so strong and free, nay had the priest at this hour asked him the question whether he would accept the office of a captain of thousands in the Egyptian army, he would undoubtedly have answered, as he did before the ruined house of Nun, that his sole desire was to remain a shepherd and rule his flocks and servants.
Sometimes he slackened his pace to wait for Tom; the shepherd was getting old and the long climb had tired him. Both stopped for some moments when they reached the brow of the descent, and Kit, bracing himself against the storm tried to look about. He thought he saw the flock close in front. "They seem doubtful where to go," he said.
At the end of a long silence Miss Shepherd said 'I think you know my brother, Major Shepherd. Mrs Shepherd hesitated, and then she said: 'No. I have never heard the name. 'Are you sure? Of course, I may be mistaken; but Ethel made pause, and looked Mrs Shepherd straight in the face. Smiling sadly, Mrs Shepherd said 'Likenesses are so deceptive.
"Dom," he said, "I believe that nine men out of ten would kiss her!" I told him not to be a fool, and we walked on. In the town-place we happened on the shepherd, Reuben Santo, and sent him off for help, and to look after the frozen people in the boat. The sight of us at the door nearly scared Selina into her grave: but we allowed her no time for hysterics.
Her dreams were pleasant, for her lips were parted in a smile. Ezra was missing. He was again spending the night in the fields with shepherd Eli. The friendship between the old man and the lad had grown more deep and strong since the night of the Angels' Visit, and they never wearied of discussing the wonderful event and all the marvels that had followed in its train.
"What have they done to ye, my bairn?" she said, in tones pitiful with the pity of the Shepherd of the sheep himself. No reply came back only another heavenly smile, a smile of absolute content. For what were stripes and nakedness and hunger to Gibbie, now that he had a woman to love! Gibbie's necessity was to love; but here was more; here was Love offering herself to him!
Foreseeing that Trant must sooner or later retreat upon Celorico though ignorant, of course, of what was happening I was actually crossing the river at the time by a ford some four miles above, not in the French staff officer's uniform which I had worn out of Sabugal, but in an old jacket lent me by my friend the shepherd.
It is true, I was no longer in the first blush of manhood; neither had I declined far in the vale of years men have accounted mine the prime of life: I had just entered my thirty-seventh year; every limb was as well knit, every articulation as true, as when I had acted the shepherd on the hills of Cumberland; and with these advantages I was to commence the train of solitary life.
"I don't believe I could be as good as that dog," said Frank. "I know I could not," said Harry. "How the shepherd and his wife must have loved him! If I had been in their place, I should have treated him like the little boy's brother, and kept him always in the parlor." "I dare say they did," said Mrs. Chilton.
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