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"I am a little deaf," he said. "Come nearer." The footfalls came half way across the intervening floor, and there appeared to hesitate. The voice, too, had a note of uncertainty. "I was just looking around. I have a pair of well, you mend shoes?" Boaz nodded his head. It was not in response to the words, for they meant nothing. What he had heard was the footfalls on the floor. Now he was sure.
He took upon himself the decent burial of the remains of Elimelech and his two sons. All this begot in Naomi the thought that Boaz harbored the intention of marrying Ruth. She sought to coax the secret, if such there was, from Ruth. When she found that nothing could be elicited from her daughter-in-law, she made Ruth her partner in a plan to force Boaz into a decisive step.
He heard them moving about the house, the lower floor, prowling here, there, halting for long spaces, advancing, retreating softly on the planks. About this aimless, interminable perambulation there was something to twist the nerves, something led and at the same time driven like a succession of frail and indecisive charges. Boaz lifted himself from his chair.
Then said she, let me in thy sight, my lord, Find favour in that thou dost thus afford Me comfort, and since thou so kind to me Dost speak, though I thereof unworthy be. And Boaz said, at meal time come thou near, Eat of the bread, and dip i' th' vinegar.
"Lawd, ole miss, you ain' gwine do dat, is you?" anxiously questioned Uncle Boaz as he filled her glass. She lifted the wine to her lips, her stern face softening. Like many a high-spirited woman doomed to perpetual inaction, her dominion over her servants had grown to represent the larger share of life. "Then be more careful in future, Boaz," she cautioned.
She said this because Naomi means "pleasant" and Mara means "bitter," and the sorrowing widow felt that her life was a bitter rather than a pleasant one, since she had been bereaved of her husband and sons. There lived in Bethlehem a man named Boaz, who was a relative of Naomi's husband, and who was also very wealthy.
He may know what a man in love is; Boaz there is in love. 'I wish we could see the woman's face, said Sleaford. 'A woman, you know, without a face 'Come and see the predella of "Faith and Love," said Wilderspin, and he moved towards an easel where rested the predella, a long narrow picture without a frame.
Then one night when Boaz was to have a winnowing of barley, Naomi told Ruth to make herself ready, putting on her best clothing, and to go to the winnowing and the feast and to ask Boaz what she should do. The winnowing is the fanning out of the straws from the kernels after the husks have been beaten off. A great many people helped about the work, and a feast was prepared for them.
Well, he's got enough folks about him now, the Lord knows. Thar's the old lady, and the two gals, and Mr. Christopher, to say nothing of Uncle Boaz and a whole troop of worthless niggers that are eating him out of house and home. Tom Spade has a deed of trust on the place for three hundred dollars; he told me so himself."
Go down into death believing, and the glory of God will come upon thee, and fill thy heart. Dear friends, we want to die. If we are to live in the rest, and the peace, and the blessedness of our great Boaz; if we are to live a life of joy and of fruitfulness, of strength and of victory, we must go down into the grave with Christ, and the language of our life must be: "I am a crucified man.
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