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'Go, my child, and say your prayers. You will have something to pray about at last. She was the only daughter he had left, exorbitantly loved; a little creature too much brocaded to move, cold as snow, pious as a virgin enclosed, with small regular features like a fairy queen's. She had a narrow mind, and small heart for meeting tribulation, which, indeed, she seemed never likely to know.
Many of his troubles were mine, and truly has Virgil sung of them. He was an exile by fate, and so am I. He had many wanderings, and so have I. He was treated with base ingratitude, and so was I. Yes, Timon and Aeneas are my brothers in tribulation. Like them I hate and curse my enemies." "But this is a Christian age," Jean reminded.
I will remain under this roof. I have shared its serenity and joy; let me not avoid it in this time of trouble and tribulation. Venetia still slept: her mother alone in the chamber watched by her side. Some hours had elapsed since her interview with Dr. Masham; the medical attendant had departed for a few hours. Suddenly Venetia moved, opened her eyes, and said in a faint voice, 'Mamma!
"Now, one mule can cause a heap of tribulation, and six mules can break a man's heart, but there wasn't no excuse for that driver to stand up on his hind legs, close his eyes, and throw thirty foot of lash into that plunging buckin', white-eyed mess.
"And what has it brought to you, Yva, beyond a fair body and a soul of strength?" "It has brought a spirit, Humphrey. Between them the body and the soul have bred a spirit, and in the fires of tribulation from that spirit has been distilled the essence of eternal love.
For each one as he listened remembered his own career and that of his brethren in the old life, and admired to think that all the evil was past, and wondered how, out of such tribulation and through so many dangers, all were safe and blessed here.
'Have you been thinking over tribulation any more? he asked. Betty nodded. 'A lot, she said emphatically, then shut up her little lips tightly; and Mr. Roper knew he was to be told no more. 'Are you going into the country, Mr. Roper? he was asked presently. 'No, indeed. I am not rich enough to have such a holiday as is in prospect for you. I wonder what you will do with yourselves all the time?
In the latter years of the great Tribulation there will appear to be a general rising of the nations against Jerusalem against the Jews.
Notice, too, 'daily beareth, or, as the Hebrew has it yet more emphatically because more simply, 'day by day beareth. He travels with us, in the greatness of His might and the long-suffering of His unwearied patience, through all our tribulation, and as He has 'borne and carried' His people 'all the days of old, so, at each new recurrence of new weights, He is with us still.
Restlessness seizes the people, and the old queen begins to stir. She feels that a new destiny is being prepared. She has religiously fulfilled her duty as a good creatress; and from this duty done there result only tribulation and sorrow. An invincible power menaces her tranquillity; she will soon be forced to quit this city of hers, where she has reigned.
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