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"And how are ye?" said the major, stepping back a pace or two, and inspecting the merchant as though he were examining his points with the intention of purchasing him. "Many's the time I've heard talk of ye. It's a real treat to see ye. How are ye?" Pouncing upon the other's unresponsive hand, he wrung it again with effusion.
Notice, too, as bearing on the limits of Paul's part in the gift, the propriety and delicacy of the language in his statement of the ultimate purpose of the gift. He does not say 'that I may strengthen you, which might have sounded too egotistical, and would have assumed too much to himself, but he says 'that ye may be strengthened, for the true strengthener is not Paul, but the Spirit of God.
"It 'ill tak ye a' yir time, lass, an' a' wud raither be on yir back; but ye never failed me yet, and a wumman's life is hangin' on the crossin'."
"P'raps I hadn't orter tell, before the rest o' ye." "Oh, yes; do tell!" pleaded Louise. "We're so anxious to know." "I don't s'pose it's right clever to pick an' choose when ye're all by," said Skim, regaining confidence. "But ma, she 'lowed thet with three gals handy I orter git one on 'em, to say the least." "If you got more than one," remarked Beth, calmly, "it would be illegal."
"Ha, outlaw!" quoth he, "give back my sword and I will cope with thee wolf's head though thou art aye, and any two other rogues beside." "Nay," answered Beltane, "I fight with such as thee but when I needs must. What Roger!" he called, "go fetch hither a rope!" "Dog would ye murder me?" "Not so," sighed Beltane, shaking his head, "have I not promised to leave thee alive within the greenwood?
Then she opened her eyes and glancing around said, in sweet voice and gracious words, "Woe to thee O wind! there is naught in thee to satisfy the thirsty, nor aught to gratify one whose thirst is satisfied! Where is Zhar al-Bostan?" But no one answered her, so she turned her and cried out, "Ho Sabihah! Shajarat al-Durr! Nur al-Huda! Najmat al-Subh! be ye awake?
"But I canna go till him, man ye see the coach is just gaun to start," said I. "Ay, but he says that's o' nae consequence. Ye maun come till him. He has something o' importance to say to ye."
He descended the path to the clustered cabins, still holding the skipper's arm and with the populace sliding and crowding at his muddy heels. His gray eyes were as keen as they were kindly. He remarked several of the great iron rings on the rocks to seaward. "What are ye up to now, Denny?" he asked, halting for a moment, and pointing with a plump but strong and weather-beaten hand.
O doctor, had ye heard the shout that burst frae the multitude! there was not one amongst them at that moment that couldna have hugged Jamie to his heart. His hands were sore burned, and on several places his clothes were on fire.
"Will to Truth" do ye call it, ye wisest ones, that which impelleth you and maketh you ardent? Will for the thinkableness of all being: thus do I call your will! All being would ye MAKE thinkable: for ye doubt with good reason whether it be already thinkable. But it shall accommodate and bend itself to you! So willeth your will.
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