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He is not charged with faults in his own administration of his office, but with not curbing his disreputable sons. The threatenings are directed, not against himself, but against his 'house, who are to be removed from the high priestly office. Nothing less than a revolution is foretold. The deposition of Eli's family would shake the whole framework of society.
This was bad enough for priest of God. Their misdeeds recoiled upon their father, who was not strict enough in rebuking them. Eli's punishment was that he aged prematurely, and, besides, he had to give up his various offices. During his lifetime, his youngest son Phinehas, the worthier of the two, officiated as high priest.
MR. BUTLER'S WARD. By F. MABEL ROBINSON. HOVENDEN, V.C. By F. MABEL ROBINSON. ELI'S CHILDREN. By G. MANVILLE FENN. A DOUBLE KNOT. By G. MANVILLE FENN. DISARMED. By M. BETHAM EDWARDS. A LOST ILLUSION. By LESLIE KEITH. A MARRIAGE AT SEA. By W. CLARK RUSSELL. IN TENT AND BUNGALOW. By the Author of 'Indian Idylls. MY STEWARDSHIP. By E. M'QUEEN GRAY. A REVEREND GENTLEMAN. By J.M. COBBAN.
I congratulate you, gentlemen, that you had not rendered an adverse verdict." "Your Honor!" said Eli; and he cleared his throat; "I desire it to be known that, even as the case stood last night, this jury had not agreed to convict, and never would have!" There was a hush, while a loud scratching pen indorsed the record of acquittal. Then Wood walked down to the jury-box and took Eli's hand.
It was a surprising thing to the people of Chincoteague, when the news went round that he had been over to court at Drummond-town and given his recognizance to bring up the orphan boy whom he named Abraham Purnell so that the county should not be at the expense of him, and he also brought out from New York, on the Eli's next trip, a Hebrew woman to be the boy's matron.
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
It was supper-time. Eli's family were collected round the board; Margaret only was missing. To Catherine's surprise, Eli said he would wait a bit for her. "Why, I told her you would not wait for the duke." "She is not the duke; she is a poor, good lass, that hath waited not minutes, but years, for a graceless son of mine.
Indian Jake stood like a statue, eyeing Eli, but he made no movement. "I said drop un!" Eli's voice was cold and hard as steel. He was in deadly earnest. "If you tries to raise un or don't drop un before I count ten I'll put a bullet in your heart!" Indian Jake might have been of chiselled stone. He did not move a muscle or wink an eye-lash but his small eyes were centred on every motion Eli made.
A shift of wind to the southward assisted Eli on his way. Early that evening he reached the Hudson's Bay Company's post, twenty miles west of The Jug. Here he stopped for supper and learned from Zeke Hodge, the Post servant, that Indian Jake had passed up Grand Lake in his canoe two days before. Zeke expressed doubt as to Eli's finding the half-breed at the Nascaupee River.
Section I. Religion a source of peace: account of Elkanah and his two wives: Peninnah reproaches Hannah: sin of despising others for their infirmities: the family at Shiloh: Elkanah endeavours to console his wife: her conduct and prayer: Eli's unjust imputation: Hannah's defence, and her accuser's retraction: return from Shiloh: birth of Samuel: his weaning. Section II.
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