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I often thank God that I was able to obey my conscience and take that step." "Suppose that in struggling up the steep path of duty one soul needs the encouragement, the cheering companionship which only one other human being can give? Will the latter be guiltless if the aid is obstinately withheld?" "Suppose the latter feels that in joining hands both would stumble?"
A chief was one day going over a mountain-path followed by a long string of his people, when he happened to stumble and fall; all the rest of the people immediately did the same except one man, who was set upon by the rest to know whether he considered himself better than the chief. What can be worse than a life regulated by that sort of obedience, and that sort of imitation?
'If thine eye offend thee' our Lord lays down this law to all those who would enter into life 'pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell-fire. Does your eye offend you, my brethren? Does your eye cause you to stumble and fall, as it is in the etymology?
It is my only consolation that not one of all of them, except the first, could have plucked at the moustache of d'Artagnan. Or perhaps, again, a portion of readers stumble at the threshold.
I sat up, and perceived a large fire not far from us. "The Philistines are upon us, Peter," said he; "I have reconnoitred, and they are the gendarmes. I'm fearful of going away, as we may stumble upon some more of them. I've been thinking what's best before I waked you; and it appears to me, that we had better get up the tree, and lie there."
Accordingly he threw his weight more into the stirrups and over the withers of the mare. This brought greater poundage on her forehand and made her apt to stumble or actually miss her step, but it increased her running power. There was no need of a touch of the spurs. The gathering of the reins seemed to tell Molly everything. One ear flickered back, then she leaped out at full speed.
It did not trouble or stumble him, as it did his sister, that it was not in their church the church of their fathers that this was done. They were God's people, and it made no difference; and so, while she only wondered, he wondered and rejoiced. But about this time news came that put all other thoughts out of their minds for a while.
So Sir Wishful sauntered up to Arissa in his most elegant and refined manner, and, twirling his mustache genteelly, said, "Arissa, my dear, methinks I'd like to take you out to dinner." Arissa sized up Sir Wishful a moment and then replied, "Sorry, Wishy, you're not my type." Sir Percival, seeing his rival stumble off in a confused, embarrassed, humiliated, dazed oh you get the idea.
Then striking through the woods, and aiming for the distant Station, he had arrived within but a few miles of it, when it was his fortune to stumble upon the band of Regulators, who, after their memorable exploit at the beech-tree, had joined the emigrants, then on their march through the woods, and convoyed them to the Station.
He might slip or stumble, in which case he would in all probability make an incision with the thing supported into its supporter, and my face lie unshaved at his feet. For this a remedy was to be contrived. He meditated, and like a true genius found no difficulty in altering his system and his manner.
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