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At the end of the meal Charlie produced the enormous widow's cruse which he called his cigarette-case and offered his father a cigarette. "Doing anything to-night?" asked Mr. Prohack, puffing. "No," answered desperately Charlie, puffing. "Ring the bell, will you?" While Charlie went to the mantelpiece Mr. Prohack secreted an apple for his starving wife.
The turnkey touched his cap and mounted the narrow iron steps to the room above. Father Cruse waited until the footsteps had ceased to echo in the corridor, and then turned to Lady Barbara. "And now tell me something about yourself; have you no friends you can send for? I will see they get your message. The captain told me you were English. Is this true?"
But the old squire had plenty of good hunters in the stables, and haunches on the board, and a cellar that was like the widow's cruse of oil, or barrel of meal or whatever she had. All the old man had to do to lose a guinea was to lay it on a card. He never nicked in his life, so they say. Well, young George got after a rich tea-merchant's daughter who had come into the country near by.
The soul is an extraordinary well; the way to replenish is to draw from it. It is more miraculous than the widow's cruse; that simply continued unexhausted, never less, indeed, but also never more; while from this the more you take, the more remains in it.
The princess now got into the waggon, and her mother gave her a golden cruse of oil that she and her maids might anoint themselves. "Then Nausicaa took the whip and reins and gave the mules a touch which sent them off at a good pace. They pulled without nagging, and carried not only Nausicaa and her wash of clothes, but the women also who were with her.
When service was over, he made his way down the aisle, waited until the last of the worshippers had had their final word with their priest, and, with a respectful bend of the head in recognition, followed Father Cruse into the sacristy. "You remember me?" he said in a hoarse, constrained voice when the priest turned and faced him. "Yes, you are Mr.
Felix glanced at the big-faced clock, facing the side window of the store. "Yes, of course I will go, since Father Cruse wishes it. Thank you for bringing his message. You need not wait." "Needn't wait! Ye're not goin' one step without me. They'd chuck ye out if ye did, and that's what they won't do to me if the captain's in his office.
The new cruse and the salt are emblems of the divine gift which cleanses the human heart. Salt is an emblem of purification, and its emblematic meaning prevails here over its natural properties; for the last thing to cure a brackish spring was to put salt into it. The very inadequacy, as well as inappropriateness, of the remedy, points the miraculous and symbolical character of the whole.
Felix?" she went on, hiding under an assumed indifference all recognition of his struggle. "Father Cruse told me if I ever come across her again, and there wasn't time to get hold of him, to let ye know." "I will go anywhere, where Father Cruse thinks I should, Mrs. Cleary especially in cases of this kind, where I may be of use."
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
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