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And with that he took up the decanters and dashed them, one after the other, on the hearthstone, the wine and brandy running like life-blood in bubbling red streams across the floor. He summoned Miles, and demanded his keys all the keys of closet and cellar in the house.
On this Western Hemisphere all tribes and people are forming into one federated whole; and there is a future which shall see the estranged children of Adam restored as to the old hearthstone in Eden.
Soon she was left alone, and she stole from her couch and knelt at the hearthstone and read the missive eagerly and flushed not a little at Count Cantemir's warm words of love that were a prelude to the weightier matters appertaining. She crept back noiselessly and lay pondering of many things.
Would he not have held her closer to his heart, and told her, with strong comforting vows, that his love had now gone deeper than that; that they were already of the same bone, of the same flesh, of the same family and hearthstone?
It must come through a realization that the great things of life are not reserved for the enjoyment of a few, but are within the reach of all. There are two shrines at which mankind has always worshipped, must always worship: the altar which represents religion, and the hearthstone which represents the home. These are the product of fixed beliefs and fixed modes of living.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad Land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
He longed for that true heart which had never failed him, the simple soul whose life had been filled by thought and care of him, and whose every act had for its background the love of sister for brother for that was their relation in every usual meaning who, too frail and broken to come to him now, waited for him by the old hearthstone.
Beware not to judge men too hastily, O farmer. 'I have met holy ones who would have cursed thee from hearthstone to byre, said Kim to the abashed man. 'Is he not wise and holy? I am his disciple. He cocked his nose in the air loftily and stepped across the narrow field-borders with great dignity.
Her words and manner vivified an old truth familiar from infancy, but never realized or intelligently believed the power of prayer to secure practical help from God. How often men have lived and died poor just above mines of untold wealth! Gaunt famine has been the inmate of households while there were buried treasures under the hearthstone.
Doolittle had been in her kitchen, as the tea-kettle found singing on the stove goes to prove, and was coming back through her bedroom, when the wretch, who had stolen in by the front door which, to save steps, she was unfortunately in the habit of leaving on the latch till all possibility of customers for the day was over, sprang upon her from behind and dealt her a swinging blow with the poker he had caught up from the hearthstone.
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