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Carry your master up the next square and then into the alley a few steps where you will find a physician. I am going now for food and bandages." She hurried on, and Big Abel, seizing Dan beneath the arms, dragged him breathlessly along the street. "A stable! Huh! Hit's a wunner dey ain' ax us ter step right inter a nice clean pig pen," he muttered as he walked on rapidly.
And Susan, she did write back immediate an' say, 'My poor bwoy, there be a sad surprise in store for you. And then when he comed they did make it up between them to keep quiet till " "There's the clock, too," observed Abel, ending the pause at last. "You can take the clock," cried Jenny, simultaneously recovering speech and self-possession. "Take the clock, Abel Guppy, and take yourself off.
But Abel Van Bu, thy father, came to our house one June morning and bade me make ready to marry him that very day, a clerk in holy orders being come to Urk to mate together those islanders who were willing to be wed according to the rites of the Church, and Abel's manner was so masterful that neither I nor my parents dared say him nay.
In the large drawing-room, draped in cool-colored chintz, where once Gabriel Bennet and Abel Newt had seen Hope Wayne, on the table where books had lain like porcelain ornaments, lay a strange piece of furniture, long, and spreading at one end, smelling of new varnish, studded with high silver-headed nails, and with a lid. It was lined with satin. Yes, it was a casket.
All the relatives who had come fourteen years before to Abel Edwards's funeral came now to his resurrection. They had gotten the news of it in such strange, untraceable ways, that it seemed almost like mental telegraphy. The Greens of Westbrook were there the three little girls in blue, now women grown.
I really don't know what to say or think," replied Mr. Abel. "You'll say that presently," retorted Dick. "Marchioness, take a seat on the bed, will you? Now, tell this gentleman all that you told me, and be particular." The story was repeated, without any deviation or omission, after which Richard Swiveller took the word again; "You have heard it all," said Richard.
It's in you to do them if you set your teeth and go ahead." "I believe I can set my teeth and go ahead now, thanks to you, Mr. Armstrong," I said. "I was heading straight for failure when I came here last spring; but you've changed my course." "Given you a sort of compass to steer by, haven't I?" queried Abel with a smile. "I ain't too modest to take some credit for it.
True, the Church is so far Catholic that it numbers of its blessed company men of every clime and every age, from righteous Abel down to the last dear babe christened yester-morning; true, the commission is "to all nations, teaching them:" but, what mean the simultaneous and easily reconciled expressions come out from among them, little flock, gathered out of the Gentiles, a peculiar people, a church militant, and not triumphant, here on earth?
"Nor while" pursued Jael, driven apparently to the last and most poisoned arrow in her quiver of wrath "while the poor folk be starving in scores about Norton Bury, and the rich folk there will not sell their wheat under famine price. Take heed to thyself, Abel Fletcher."
"Cassy's got as much right here as any of us, Abel, and she's coming to say it, I guess." The voice which spoke was unlike a Western voice. It was deep and full and slow, with an organ-like quality. It was in good keeping with the tall, spare body and large, fine rugged face of the woman to whom it belonged.
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