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"That don't make any odds," replied Mrs. Barnard, who was trembling all over, and had sunk helplessly into a rocking-chair, which she swayed violently and unconsciously. Cephas opened the door of the brick oven, and put in a batch of his pies, and the click of the iron latch made her start as if it were a pistol-shot.
If he could ever get the "heft" of the "doggoned" cleaning out of the way so that Patty's mind could be free to entertain his proposition; could ever secure one precious moment of silence when she was not slatting and banging, pushing and pulling things about, her head and ears out of sight under a shelf, and an irritating air of absorption about her whole demeanor; if that moment of silence could ever, under Providence, be simultaneous with the absence of customers in the front shop, Cephas intended to offer himself to Patience Baxter that very morning.
Thou knowest all things. No wonder that when he stood up amongst the Apostles after the Resurrection and the Ascension, and was the mouthpiece of their prayers, remembering this scene as well as other incidents, he began his prayer with 'Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men. But let us remember that this call it, if you like, supernatural knowledge which Jesus Christ had of the denial, is only one of a great body of facts in His life, if we accept these Gospels, which show that, as one of the Evangelists says, at almost the beginning of his history, 'He needed not that any man should testify of man, for He knew what was in man. It is precisely on the same line, as His first words to Peter, whom He greeted as he came to Him with 'Thou art Simon; thou shalt be Cephas. It is entirely on the same line as the words with which He greeted another of this little group, 'When thou wast under the fig-tree I saw thee. It is on the same line as the words with which He penetrated to the unspoken thoughts of His churlish entertainer when He said, 'Simon!
It was a thrilling moment, a sort of outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual tie, for their banns were to be published the next day, so what did it matter if the community, nay, if the whole universe, speculated as to why she was drawing her beloved back from his daily toil? It had been an eventful autumn for Cephas.
Letitia confessed what she had done, and her aunt listened gravely. Letitia did not say anything about Josephus Peabody. She was not sure that he had made his escape, and if he had his grandmother might punish him, and she considered that he had probably suffered enough at the hands of Goodman Cephas Holbrook. Letitia's aunt listened gravely.
While they were baking she ran over and invited Charlotte and her mother. She did not see Cephas; he had gone to draw some wood. "I'd like to have him come, too," she said, as she went out; "but I dunno as he'd eat anything I've got for tea." "Land! he eats anything when he goes out anywhere to tea," replied Mrs. Barnard. "He was over to Hannah's a while ago, an' he eat everything.
"Don't do it, Cephas, the house is stout, and mebbe help'll come," said Mrs. Bement, although she trembled. But Cephas, though generally like clay in the hands of his wife, was at this instant dominated by a terror greater than his fear of her. He lifted the bar from the sockets, and was instantly sent staggering back against the wall as the door burst open.
I reasoned it out that other animals besides man lived on animals, except cows, an' they, bein' ruminatin' animals, ain't to be compared to men " "I should think we'd be somethin' like 'em if we eat that," said Mrs. Barnard, pointing at the sorrel, with piteous sarcasm. "It's the principle I'm thinkin' about," said Cephas.
I sez, "Where Wellington is now, that hain't a goin' to make any difference, and," sez I, "Cephas, flowers are dretful high this time of year, and it is a long name." But Cephas said agin that he didn't care for expense, so long as respect wuz done to the memory of the deceased.
Cephas had hired eleven mournin' coaches, and the day bein' so bad, and so few a-turnin' out to the funeral, that in order to occupy all the coaches and Cephas thought it would look better and more popular to have 'em all occupied we divided up, and Josiah went in one, alone, and lonesome as a dog, as he said afterwards to me.
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