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Suddenly the waggoner came to a halt, and said 'Blest if that Gearge bain't a snorin' on his pins! Evan lingered by him with some curiosity, while the waggoner thumped his thigh to, 'Yes he be! no he bain't! several times, in eager hesitation. 'It's a fellow calling from the downs, said Evan. 'Ay, so! responded the waggoner. 'Dang'd if I didn't think 'twere that Gearge of our'n. Hark awhile.
Presently a light step approached, but she did not hear it, and deemed herself still alone till some one sat down beside her and, passing an arm round her waist, tenderly kissed her forehead. "Dear child," said her Aunt Elsie's sweet voice, "do not grieve so; think how blest he is forever freed from all earth's cares and troubles, pains and sicknesses, and forever with the Lord he loved so well."
On the contrary, her strange husband had blest her with an infant. Everything was pardonable to him if he left her boy untouched in the mother's charge. Much alone as she was, she raised the dead to pet and cherish her boy. Chillon had seen him and praised him. Mrs. Owain Wythan, her neighbour over a hill, praised him above all babes on earth, poor childless woman!
You will doubtless recall the description, as so frequently and graphically dished up by the inspired writers of travelogue stuff the picturesque, tumbledown place, where on a cloth of coarse linen white like snow old Marie, her wrinkled face abeam with hospitality and kindness, places the delicious omelet she has just made, and brings also the marvelous salad and the perfect fowl, and the steaming hot coffee fragrant as breezes from Araby the Blest, and the vin ordinaire that is even as honey and gold to the thirsty throat.
I may add that the Doctor has just been dug up, and we are busy, in the enemy's absence, renewing old Aeson with enchanted threads. By the way, a Papist priest has blest them." A month had passed when Adrian wrote this letter. He was very comfortable; so of course he thought Time was doing his duty.
Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love: The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. Before our Father's throne We pour our ardent prayers; Our fears, our hopes, our aims, are one, Our comforts and our cares. We share our mutual woes, Our mutual burdens bear, And often for each other flows The sympathizing tear.
This is an awful state for any to be in at present; but, blest be God, it is not yet a hopeless situation. Let no person say, "I find by what I have heard, that I do not love God, and therefore I can entertain no hope." There is a way of return and recovery open to all. Jesus Christ, my dear brethren, proclaims to you all, "I am the way.
I am now comparatively happy a word from you will, make me blest.
Even this will be the dream thou wilt dream today, O king of kings. Do not grieve for dreaming such a dream. None can rise superior to the influence of Time. Blest be thou! I will now proceed towards the Kailasa mountain. Rule thou the earth with vigilance and steadiness, patiently bearing every privation!"
The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.
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