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But I might believe all about him quite correctly, and yet not believe in him." "What do you call believing in him, then?" "Obeying him, mother to say it as shortly as I can. I try to obey him in the smallest things he says only there are no small things he says and so does Alister. I strive to be what he would have me, nor do I hold anything else worth my care.
Mercy regarded Alister as a big brother in the same class with herself, but able to help her. Quickly they grew intimate. In the simplicity of his large nature, the chief talked with Mercy as openly as a boy, laying a heart bare to her such that, if the world had many like it, the kingdom of heaven would be more than at hand.
The same instant there was a little noise like a sob. Mercy started, and when she looked again Alister had vanished as noiselessly as he came. For a moment she sat afraid to move. A wind came blowing upon her from the window: some one had opened her door! What if it were her father! She compelled herself to turn her head. It was something white! it was Christina!
A love can never be lost; it is a possession; but who can take his diamond ring into the somewhere beyond? it is not a possession. God only can be ours perfectly; nothing called property can be ours at all." "I know it with my head at least," said Alister; "but I am not sure how you apply it to me." "You love your country don't you, Alister?" "I do." "What do you mean by LOVING YOUR COUNTRY?"
"There is no occasion for an oath, Alister!" said his mother. "Alister meant it very solemnly!" said Ian. "Yes; but it was not necessary least of all to me. The name of our Lord God should lie a precious jewel in the cabinet of our hearts, to be taken out only at great times, and with loving awe."
Alister was drawn by the honest gaze of her yet undeveloped and homely countenance, with its child-look in process of sublimation, whence the woman would glance out and vanish again, leaving the child to give disappointing answers. There was something in it of the look a dog casts up out of his beautiful brown eyes into the mystery of his master's countenance.
But in a moment or two she controlled herself, and was able to say sufficiently in his mother's tone and manner to keep up the initiated misconception: "They put me out of the house, Alister." "Put you out of the house!" he returned, like one hearing and talking in a dream. "Who dared interfere with you, mother? Am I losing my senses? I seem not to understand my own words!" "Mr. Palmer." "Mr.
And with unimpaired dignity he descended the ladder and was rowed away over the prismatic waters. And Alister and I turned round to look for Dennis, and found him sitting in the scuppers, wiping the laughter-tears out of his thick eyelashes. There was something fateful about that evening, which was perhaps what made the air so heavy.
Palmer to give and Alister to take the land back, would be some amends to the nation, grievously injured in the money of its purchase! The deed would restore to the redeeming and uplifting influence of her son many who were fast perishing from poverty and whisky; for, their houses and crofts once more in the power of their chief, he would again be their landlord as well!
When the minister died, the idea of it transmitted to his son was of a peculiarly sacred character; while in the eyes of the people, the authority of the chief and the influence of the minister seemed to meet reborn in Alister notwithstanding his youth.
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