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As to the effect on her modest, countrified little heart of the phrases in which Abijah stated she was a goddess and he her faithful slave, that quite baffles description; for it lifted her bodily out of the scenes in which she moved, into a new, rosy, ethereal atmosphere in which even Rebecca had no place.
Write me a letter soon, dearie, to tell me as how things is going on. Your affectionate nurse, ABIJAH WOLF." Although Ned was a lad of sixteen, he had a great cry over this letter, but it did him good, and it was with a softer heart that he prepared to receive his mother and her husband that evening. The meeting passed off better than he had anticipated. Mrs.
Her high, clear voice, quivering with merriment, floated through the windows into the still summer air: "'A warrior so bold and a maiden so bright Conversed as they sat on the green. They gazed at each other in tender delight. Abijah the Brave was the name of the knight, And the maid was the Fair Emmajane." "Rebecca Randall, stop! Somebody'll hear you!"
At that moment, as they sat quietly eating their happy meal, a deadly particular peril was headed straight for Tinsdale. Abijah Gage and Herbert Hutton boarded the evening train for Tinsdale together and entered the sleeper. Abijah shuffled behind, carrying the bags, a most extraordinary and humiliating position for him.
Emma Jane was not to be seen in garden, field, or at the window, and Abijah turned his gaze to the large brick house that came next on the other side of the quiet village street. It might have been closed for a funeral. Neither Miss Miranda nor Miss Jane Sawyer sat at their respective windows knitting, nor was Rebecca Randall's gypsy face to be discerned.
Oh, the time I have had with your mother! I am not fit, it seems, to be left to take care of you. They talk of leaving you with Abijah Hapworthy sour old dog! I wish you joy of him!" "Good heavens!" I exclaimed; for among my aunt's gay friends I had picked up such exclamatory phrases as, used at home, would have astonished my father. "Rest easy," said Mistress Wynne; "it is not to be.
'The children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers. 2 CHRON. xiii. 18. These words are the summing-up of the story of a strange old-world battle between Jeroboam, the adventurer who rent the kingdom, and Abijah, the son of the foolish Rehoboam, whose unseasonable blustering had played into the usurper's hands.
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
One morning the Burnham sisters from North Riverboro came over to spend the day with Aunt Miranda, and Abijah went down to put up their horse. He scaled the ladder to the barn chamber the dear old ladder that used to be my safety valve! and pitched down the last forkful of grandfather's hay that will ever be eaten by any visiting horse.
"How long do we stop at Brattleboro?" he asked over his shoulder. "Only long enough to get the knot tied," Abijah answered. "I was in town this afternoon and everything's set." "I hope," said Sally, "you'll give the bride away; it would be just fine of you, Mr. Comly." "I was hoping you'd ask me," he flung back. "I want to be as prominent in the wedding party as possible."
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