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Strange! Take two Christians equal in all points but this; nay, let one go beyond the other in grace and goodness, as far as a man is beyond a babe, yet water shall turn the scale, shall open the door of communion to the less; and command the other to stand back: yet is no proof to the church of this babe's faith and hope, hath nothing to do with his entering into fellowship, is no part of the worship of the church.
The servant looked doubtful on the point. 'There's company tonight, sir. 'I knew he was making a night of it, said Charteris to Tony. 'It's not Mr MacArthur we want to see. It's dash it, what's the Babe's name? 'Robert, I believe. Wouldn't swear to it. 'Mr Robert. Is he in? It seemed to Charteris that the form of this question smacked of Ollendorf.
At his death his consort remained an early widow, with a male child of three years old, which, in the sobriety wherewith it demeaned itself, in the old-fashioned and even grim cast of its features, and in its sententious mode of expressing itself, would sufficiently have vindicated the honour of the widow of Beersheba, had any one thought proper to challenge the babe's descent from Bible Butler.
About the same time, in the circle of French exiles at Brussels, a young romantique named Fortnoye was reported as weeping and lavishing statues over the grave of an unknown infant in the churchyard at Laaken. It was a delicious mystery. Kind meddlers approached the sexton, who said that all he knew of the babe's mother was that she was a beautiful lady from London.
That song tells us what that babe's coming had to do with the poor slaves of Rome, and with all poor creatures who have suffered and sorrowed on this earth, before or since. "Glory to God in the highest," they sang, "and on earth peace, good will to men." Glory to God in the highest.
When I came softly back five minutes later, he lay in deep slumber, his face cherubically innocent, his breathing soft as a babe's. He awoke freshly two hours later. He apologized for his rudeness and expressed a wish for a glass of cool water. Three of these he drank with evidences of profound relish. Then he drew his large silver watch from his pocket.
Then came a footman, then two wondrously-dressed nurses, with their heads a halo of silver filigree pins, one of the nurses bearing the lace-wrapped infant in a white embroidered mantle that fell almost to the floor. Two maids followed. This little company filled the babe's gondola, that swept out, the others following and surrounding it as they glided down to San Marco.
Then, make room for me by thy side, and let us read together one page of that blessed volume; and, lastly, kneel down with me and pray! Do this, and thy stony heart shall become softer than a babe's, and all be well."
"...I know the little boy's story.... He is amazingly rich they both gave him the blue flower. He is love-essence.... May I leave him a little while, until I get some other things?" Out of the fervent heat he had come. Beth looked up. Bedient had drawn back to the door. Light from the hidden sun was in the room.... He was gone. Beth did not yet know the babe's story.
"We want a dog!" had been a kind of family cry until Babe's last birthday. Some six months before that birthday Babe came to me and said: "Father, will you guess what I want for my birthday?" "A new pair of skates with a key fore and aft," I replied. "Skates in August!" he shouted in derision. "Try again." "A fast-flyer sled with automatic steering-gear and an electric self-starter and stopper."
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