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He paused, for a feeling betwixt sorrow and strong resentment choked his utterance. "And wi' that man? that fearfu' man?" said Jeanie. "And she has left us to gang aff wi' him? O Effie, Effie, wha could hae thought it, after sic a deliverance as you had been gifted wi'!" "She went out from us, my bairn, because she was not of us," replied David.
See," she said, producing the sacred volume, "the book opens aye at the place o' itsell. O see, Jeanie, what a fearfu' Scripture!" Jeanie took her sister's Bible, and found that the fatal mark was made at this impressive text in the book of Job: "He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone.
Mony a year afterwards t' foak round here ud talk o' that for an April frost. An my poor 'Lias lost on that fearfu Scout sleepin out wi'out a rag to cover him, an skeert soomhow t'Lord or t'Devil knows how! And then foak ud have me mak a good tale out o' it soomthin to gie 'em a ticklin down their backbane soomthin to pass an evenin Lord!
'It was a fearfu' noise yon; it wakened me up oot o' the sleep o' the just, he said. 'I thocht the chimney mun have been stricken, but if sae, stanes wud hae come through the roof. Maist likely the auld ash-tree by the door has been stricken. Hark! he added, 'I think the storm's past, for it's rainin' hard enoo.
O woman, had I deserved this at your hand? Had ye but spoke ae word " "What gude wad that hae dune?" said the prisoner. "Na, na, Jeannie; a' was ower whan once I forgot what I promised when I turned down the leaf of my Bible. O see, Jeannie, what a fearfu' Scripture!" "O if ye had spoken ae word again!" sobbed Jeannie.
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