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Updated: May 4, 2025
"'A gift from the giver's own hand is twice a gift, she said, and I thought that she spoke meaningly. "'You mean that you want me to give them to you myself? "'Surely. "I rose to go with her. 'How is it that, being of the Matuku, you speak in the Zulu tongue? I asked suspiciously. "'I am not of the Matuku, she answered as soon as we were out of hearing of the men.
She wondered even at this late day how she had been able to hold her maddening curiosity in check. She knew now what had saved her her mother's hand, reaching down from heaven, had set the giver's flaming eyes upon the covers of these books. One day she had thrown all the gifts into the lagoon, and visited the secret nook no more.
The King took the lump and examined it, and then looked sharply at the giver's face for a few seconds. Then in a tone of irritated surprise, he asked: "Are you Kondwana?" "Yes, my King." "Where are your soldiers, and where are the stones you were sent to fetch?" "The soldiers are dead, my King. Only this one and I are living. We were overcome by the Makalakas and the Balotsi.
That king who succeeds in making gifts of earth with such crops standing thereon as sugar-cane or barley or wheat, or with kine and horses and other draft cattle, earth that has been won with the might of the giver's arms, that has mineral wealth in its bowels and that is covered with every kind of wealth of the surface, wins inexhaustible regions of felicity in the next world, and such a king it is that is said to perform the earth-sacrifice.
The New Guinea men chattered and seemed delighted, holding out their hands and catching eagerly at the beads, snatching them from the giver's hands, and asking apparently for more. I saw Uncle Dick sign to them that he wanted some of their birds in exchange.
The mother was touched. But not quite satisfied yet of the giver's real feelings towards Oliver, she was not willing to conclude the interview until she understood her small hostess better. "Oliver?" suggested the other, with a curious, wan little smile. Deborah nodded. "And what miracle " "Oh, I do not wonder you pause. This is not the day of miracles.
Indeed, he is said to be the giver of everything. Hence, O king, such a man acquires both strength and beauty of form in this world. If food be given duly unto a Brahmana arrived at the giver's house as a guest, the giver attains to great happiness, and is adored by the very deities. The Brahmana, O Yudhishthira, is a great being. He is also a fertile field.
They will show you the trees under which he was wont to rest, the sunny views he loved, the very stones on which he sat; they will tell you anecdotes of his poverty of an indigence such as we can scarcely credit. During the last months he was often thankful for a crust of bread, in exchange for which he would bring a sack of acorns, self-collected, to feed the giver's pigs.
Aaron felt angry, as if he were half insulted by the other man's placing the gift of friendship or connection so quietly back in the giver's hands. Lilly would receive no gift of friendship in equality. Neither would he violently refuse it. He let it lie unmarked.
The spirit of the mediaeval church, too, encouraged charitable giving in the main "as a species of fire insurance." The poor, when they were thought of at all, were too likely to be regarded as a means of saving the giver's soul. This view of poverty is either quite dead or dying, but the sentimental view, which succeeded it, is still very common.
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