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Updated: May 2, 2025
Do you fear to take him home lest your father boil him down for his gold?" and Mother Lemon laughed as she spun. "No. My father, I know, would not give him one night's lodging, and in my perplexity I bethought me to ask you the favor," and Gabriel's honest eyes looked so squarely at Mother Lemon that she stopped her wheel. "I cannot keep the dog," continued the boy, "and my heart is heavy."
In Garland Town, if you walked with two ladies it was de rigueur to offer an arm to each. The stars in their courses seemed to be helping Miss Gabriel's design. Her one anticipated difficulty for she sought an interview with Mrs. Treacher, to pump her in the presence and hearing of the Lord Proprietor's agent had been a possible interruption by the Commandant.
You have to act upon ignorant, heroic, enthusiastic natures like Djalma's sensual and eccentric characters like Adrienne de Cardoville's simple and ingenuous minds like Rose and Blanche Simon's honest and frank dispositions like Francis Hardy's angelic and pure souls like Gabriel's brutal and stupid instincts like Jacques and can you ask, 'What is to be done?"
"Never mind that," said she, slowly shaking her head. "I am not here for your sake, but for my poor Gabriel's sake, to expiate his sin and to free his soul from guilt. I dare not use many words. The fame of the White Lady has spread through the whole city, and it may well be that they are on my track to-night that Count Schwarzenberg's suspicions have been aroused.
Yet there for sixty years has stood sentinel the "Public Guard" of Virginia, wearing the suicidal motto of that decaying Commonwealth, "Sic semper Tyrannis"; and when one asked the origin of the precaution, one learned that it was the lasting memorial of Gabriel's insurrection, the stern heritage of terror bequeathed by his defeat.
A single stitch dropped shows a blemish in the garment. In the sight of God the most menial task is as sacred as that of the highest order, and when well done as greatly meets his approval. That is a beautiful thought expressed by the Mohammed Bible. It tells of Gabriel's being sent to earth to do two things.
The dog's long hair, which had been a dingy brown, shone now like golden silk in the sunshine, and his eyes gleamed with the light of topazes as they fixed lovingly on Gabriel's happy face; for Gabriel was happy, as every one is who sees Love work what is called a miracle, but what is really not a miracle at all, but just one of the beautiful, happy changes for the better that follow on Love, wherever she goes.
Mother Lemon dried her eyes, and at this moment they heard a great scratching on the door of the shed; for Topaz had wakened from a nap and heard Gabriel's voice. "Ah, that I had never given you the penny!" wailed the old woman, "for then you would not have bought the yellow dog and gone away where I shall see you no more." Gabriel's sober face smiled.
As the crook had absorbed most of Gabriel's money, he attempted, and carried out, an exchange of his overcoat for a shepherd's regulation smock-frock. This transaction having been completed, he again hurried off to the centre of the town, and stood on the kerb of the pavement, as a shepherd, crook in hand.
The boy finished his sketch, with an impudent wink at the model, flung himself back on his chair, folded his arms, cast a discontented glance at the whitened seams of the sleeves, and soon seemed lost in his own reflections. The painter worked on in silence. The model, whom Gabriel's wink had aroused, half-flattered, half-indignant for a moment, lapsed into a doze.
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