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Updated: May 8, 2025
It is everywhere recognized that the great outcome of a man's life is not the title to a thousand acres. He is soon dispossessed. It is not all the bonds and money he can hold. A dead man's hands are empty. It is not reputation that the winds blow away. But it is character that he acquires and carries with him. He has a fidelity to principle that is like Abdiel's.
No; I've got to take care of Abdiel, and Abdiel's got to take care of me! 'Ain't you, Abby?" "We can't have him here in the kitchen nohow!" said the cook in relenting tone. "Poor fellow!" said the housemaid kindly. The dog turned to her and wagged his tail "What wouldn't I give for a lover like that!" said the housemaid but whether of Clare or the dog I cannot say.
What could it all mean? What would little Ann do without him? She would not cry: she never cried at least, he had never seen her cry! but that would not make it easier for her! What had become of Abdiel? Had Glum Gunn got him? Then the wet on his face was Abdiel's blood shed in his defence, perhaps, when his enemies were taking him away!
This prohibition was a great trial to Abdiel's loving heart, but it had not until this night been a trial too great for his loving will. When Clare left him, he thought he had taken his usual pains in shutting him into a small cage he had made to use on such occasions, lest he might be tempted to think, when he saw nobody about, that the law no longer applied.
Perhaps she knew she did not deserve politeness; anyhow she took Clare's for impudence, and came swooping upon him. He stopped and waited her approach, perplexed as to the cause of it; and was so unprepared for the box on the ear she dealt him, that it almost threw him down. Her ankle was instantly in Abdiel's sharp teeth.
Person's management, and such the responsiveness of the boy's disposition, that the thought never came to him whether this or that was a thing fit for him to do: if the thing was a right thing, and had to be done, why should not he do it as well as another! To earn his own and Abdiel's bread, he would do anything honest, setting up his back at nothing.
His eyes blinded with the great light, for it was a glorious morning in the beginning of June, he found himself assailed in unknightly fashion below the knee: there, to his unspeakable delight, was Abdiel, clinging to him with his fore-legs, and wagging his tail as if, like the lizards for terror, he would shake it off for gladness! What a blessed little pendulum was Abdiel's tail!
A dog ain't a Christian!" "Abdiel's more of a Christian than some I know," answered Clare: "he does what his master tells him." "There's something in that!" said the cook. "If I parted with Abdiel, I could never hold up my head among the angels," insisted Clare. "Think what harm it might do him! He could trust nobody after, his goodness might give way! He might grow worse than Tommy!
Clare charged the crowd: it was not a time to be civil! Abdiel's life was in imminent danger! That his own was in the same predicament did not occur to him. His sudden rush took the crowd by surprise, or those next the caravans would, I fear, have stopped him. Some started to follow him, but the portion of the crowd he came to next, had more in it of a better sort, and closed up behind him.
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