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Fortifying his heart by these reflections, he had declared to himself that the timid doubtings of the girl should go for nothing. As she loved him he would of course be strong enough to conquer all such doubtings. He would take her up in his arms and carry her away, and simply tell her that she had got to do it.
Then, sermon over and the service, he had gone away and lavished upon Reed Opdyke a purely human sympathy that was totally unlike the exalted pity of the priest. In other words, as concerned Reed Opdyke, Brenton's attitude was two-faced, human, priestly; two-faced, and the two faces were mutually antagonistic. Worst of all, the doubtings did not focus themselves upon the solitary instance.
Those three prisoners, who were saved by faith in the promise during those two years of suspense, now find their faith lost in certainty. Their salvation, by faith has come to an end. And so has the unbelief, condemnation and doubtings of the other three prisoners.
Helen needs you and wishes to see you." Martine started up, exclaiming, "He must have remembered her." Mr. Kemble shook his head. "No, Hobart," said the doctor, "she was as much of a stranger to him as you were. There were, of course, grounds for your expectation and hers also, but we prosaic physiologists have some reason for our doubtings as well as you for your beliefs.
And there began to be great doubtings and disputations among the people, notwithstanding so many signs had been given. And it came to pass in the thirty and fourth year, in the first month, on the fourth day of the month, there arose a great storm, such an one as never had been known in all the land.
Pray, what did she say? for the words of such a singular message, and from such a messenger, ought to be attended to. If I understood her aright, she was chiding us for our misbelief and preposterous delay." I recited her words, but he answered that I had been in a state of sinful doubting at the time, and it was to these doubtings she had adverted.
And doubtings and questionings and uncertainties were other shadow shapes thronging the demesnes of two men's souls. Silence and dim dusk without, dim dusk and silence within. Once Howard, the lighter spirited of the two, sought to laugh the constraint away. 'Something seems to have come over us, John, he said.
And then to Peter's blundering self-confidence comes a plain tender reminder of his weakness. So that wondrous fourteenth chapter that Christendom loves begins back in the thirteenth. And Jesus goes quietly on as they still linger about the table. He had been sorely troubled, but He would have them not troubled by their doubtings regarding Himself.
But I was saying it was in the middle of these doubtings of mine that you came here to Octavius, and I noticed you on the streets, and once in the evening I made no secret of it to my people I sat in the back of your church and heard you preach. As I say, I liked you. It was your face, and what I thought it showed of the man underneath it, that helped settle my mind more than anything else.
She looked at me with one of her infrequent, passionate doubtings in her eyes. " if Mis' Proudfit an' Clementina had just of been lit too," she said, "mebbe " She got no farther, though I think it was not the opening of the door by Peleg Bemus that interrupted her. Peleg did not come in. He said something of the snow on his shoes, and spoke through the door's opening.
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