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She nursed her with a passion of faithfulness that made the other sisters remonstrate. "You'll wear yourself out, Athalia; you haven't had your clothes off for three days and nights!" "The Lord has upheld me, and His right hand has sustained me," Athalia quoted, with an uplifted look.
The family were gathered in the sitting-room; they had had their supper the eight elderly women and the three elderly men, all that were left of the community. The room had the austere and shining cleanness which Athalia had called a perfume, but it was full of homely comfort.
She followed him, and for a moment they neither of them spoke; he fumbled about in the warm darkness for a match, and lifting the shade, lighted the lamp on the table; then he looked at her. "Athalia," he said, in a terrified voice, "I am I am a Shaker!" "No no no!" she said. She grew very white, and sat down, breathing quickly. Then the color came back faintly into her lips.
The two kings of Israel and of Judah he slew with his own hand. The priests and servants of Baal were put to the sword. The death of Athalia brought on the expulsion of the Phoenician idolatry from Jerusalem.
He had thought it would only last six months, and here it was a year! Well, if Nathan's reading of the Prophecies was right, then Athalia would never get over it. She ought never to get over it. Then what would become of the farm and the sawmill?
When Nathan talked of these things he would add, with a sigh, that he hoped some day William would be inspired to tell them something more of Sister Lydia: "Once William said, 'Coming, coming. I think it meant Lydia; but Eldress thought it was Athalia; it was just before she came." Brother Nathan sighed. "I wish it had meant Lydy," he said, simply.
Athalia, in her absorption, probably had not the slightest idea of the agonies of mortification which he suffered; her imagination told her, truly enough, what angry relatives and pleasantly horrified neighbors said about her, and the abuse exhilarated her very much; but her imagination stopped there.
"Do you know, my dear boy, there would not be so crowded or fashionable an audience to witness Racine's Athalia?" "Undoubtedly. What is the beggarly howling of an actor, compared to the roaring of the lion?" "I cannot understand how the authorities permit this Morok to fasten his panther with a chain to an iron ring in the corner of the stage. If the chain were to break?"
The brothers and sisters had assembled to meet the convert, and to give a neighborly hand to the silent man who was to live by himself in a little, gray, shingled house down on Lonely Lake Road. It was a supreme moment to Athalia.
And he said, very simply, "Well, Athalia, then I'll go, too." "You? But you don't believe " And almost in the Bible words he answered her, "No; but where you go, I will go; where you live, I will live." And then, a moment later, "I promised to cleave to you, little Tay." THE uprooting of their life took a surprisingly short time.
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