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He was less English than ever, but he eventually gave her to understand that he had secured permission to escort her as far as Ganlook, a town in Graustark not more than fifteen miles from Edelweiss and at least two days from Balak. Two competent Axphainian guides had been retained, and the party was quite ready to start.
When the Israelites encamped in "the plain of Moab," Balak, the Moabite king, sent in terror to Balaam, the seer of Pethor. He had indeed cause for alarm. The Amorites had already robbed him of the fairest portion of his dominions; Moab north of the Arnon had fallen into their hands. "Come unto Heshbon," it said; "let the city of Sihon be built and fortified.
Nay, Rosamund, you can serve me better far by living. Return to England, and publish there the truth of what you have learnt. Be yours the task of clearing my honour of this stain upon it, proclaiming the truth of what drove me to the infamy of becoming a renegade and a corsair." He started from her. "Hark! What's that?" From without had come a sudden cry, "Afoot! To arms! To arms! Hola! Balak!
The thorough subserviency of Northern sentiment to the domination of that masterly will which characterized "the South" of the old regime was never better illustrated. "Curse me this people!" said the Southern Balak of the Abolitionist first, of the Bureau-Officer next, and then of the Carpet-Bagger. The Northern Balaam hemmed and paltered, and then cursed the children of his loins!
Israel the Jew!" cried the Moors. "God of Jacob, save us! Israel ben Oliel!" cried the people of the Mellah. "What is it? What has happened? What has befallen them?" they all asked together. "Balak!" cried the soldier in front, swinging his staff before him to force a passage through the thronging multitude. "Attention! By your leave! Away! Out of the way!"
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
Balaam, greedy of reward, forced, as it were, consent from God to go to Balak, though warned that his words would not be in his own power.
About festivals they seem to follow the usage current in the days of Jerome: better, I think, than the modern calendar, full of saints-days which end in riot and carouse, and on which the honest journeyman is forbidden to work for his children's bread. As Slechta read these words, he must surely have felt as did Balak, the son of Zippor, when he listened to the seer from Mesopotamia taking up his parable upon Israel in the plains of Moab.
"Balak!" shouted the soldier, and the crier cried once more, and the procession moved again. It was the hour of Israel's last temptation. Not a glance in his face disclosed passion, but his heart was afire. The devil seemed to be jarring at his ear, "Look! Listen! Is it for people like these that you have come to this? Were they worth the sacrifice?
If any are disposed to inquire with Balak, Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? Let them attend to the answer given by Balaam if we add, reliance on divine grace in Christ no better answer can be given. How far those of old were let into the gospel way of salvation we know not. Balaam expressed the temper of a child of God.
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