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Then he took up the glass and drained it at one draught. His face flushed a bright crimson: he poured himself out another glass. "Aren't you drinking, Ephraim?" he exclaimed, after he had finished that glass also. "I don't drink to-day, father," Ephraim faltered, "it's a fast." "A fast? What fast?
"Spare me," she broke in; and with that she turned shortly and asked Ephraim Yeates to put her in her saddle. Richard was still in the fever stupor, but he roused himself at my urging and let us set him upon his beast. Once safe in the saddle, we lashed him fast like a prisoner, with a forked tree-branch at his back to hold him erect.
"You don't mean that Fanny and Ambrose are to be married!" cried Sophy, with wide-open eyes. "I do, Madam; and my Aunt Kezia is as mad as a hatter about it. She would have liked Ephraim for her nephew ever so much better than Ambrose." "Well, I do think!" exclaimed Sophy. "If Ephraim did really care for Fanny, she has used him shamefully." "So I think!" said Hatty.
The drawling conversation was beset, as it were, by faint fleckings of sound, lightly drawn from a crazy old fiddle under the chin of a gaunt, yellow-haired young giant, one Ephraim Blinks, who lolled on a log, and who by these vague harmonies unconsciously gave to the talk of his comrades a certain theatrical effect.
Nothing was more easy, numerous as they were, than to despatch THEM, and then, lying in ambush among the trees that skirted the banks, to shoot down every one in the fishing boat before a landing could be effected, and preparations made for defence; while, in the indifference of their conduct in regard to the departure of Ephraim Giles, he saw but a design to disarm suspicion, and thus induce them to lay by their arms, the reports of which would necessarily alarm the party expected, and so far put them on their guard as to defeat their plans.
The chief's practiced eye soon showed him the way by which Ephraim, if fortune favored him, could escape. He called softly, and directly after his nephew whispered: "I'll loose your ropes, if you will hold up your hands to me. Mine are free!" Joshua's tense features brightened.
"As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water." Hosea, x. 7. Many promises had marked out Ephraim for greatness, and at first the new kingdom seemed quite to overshadow the little rocky Judah. But the founder of the dominion of the ten tribes sowed the seeds of decay, because, like Saul, he would not trust to the God who had given him his crown.
Finally, tell them that if I remain behind and am not suffered to follow them, as I would like to, that the Most High has made a different disposal of His servant and has broken the sword which He had chosen, ere He used it. Do you understand me, boy?" Ephraim nodded, and answered: "You mean that death alone can stay you from obeying the summons of God, and your father's command."
Brampton, with its wide-shadowed green, and terrace-steepled church; home once of the Social Library and Lucretia Penniman, now famous; home now of Isaac Dudley Worthington, whose great mills the stage driver had pointed out to them on Coniston Water as they entered the town. Then came a drive through the cool evening to Coniston, Ephraim showing them landmarks.
She took up the distaff that she had dropped, and fell to work again. "Thee must not speak to me so, Angus MacLean," she said. "I trust that my heart is not hard. Thy death would grieve me, and my father and my mother and Ephraim" "I care not for thy father and mother and Ephraim!" MacLean began impetuously. "But you do right to chide me.
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