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Abraham was "called," we know not precisely how, but in some way which tested his reliance on things "not seen as yet," and he set out on that wonderful life of a hundred years of faith. The same reliance on the sheer word of promise nerved him to the awful ordeal of the all-but immolation of his son.
Several of John's choicest all-but jokes were also retained.
I conjectured that they had so burned and watched during months, or years: for they were now blazing diminished, with streaks and rays in the flame, as if by effort, and if these were the only two, they must have needed time to all-but exhaust the works.
His Intelligence Department told him that the German drive would probably begin at ten minutes past midnight. They might be quite wrong, but that was their guess. Foch was all-but sure they were not wrong; that it was not in German nature to reason other than as I have described. Strange! But it couldn't mean anything, of course! So the boche came on.
The Master simply commanded: "Down, Lad!" As the dog, obediently, dropped to the ground, the Master bent to examine the groaning and maudlinly weeping Rhuburger. In this Samaritan task he was joined by one or two of the club's more venturesome members who had followed him down the steps. Rhuburger was all-but delirious with fright.
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