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And you think perhaps you're clever, do you? Let's see how far you've got, then!" And he took up the hymn-book with a trembling hand. He could not stand anything being said against boys that had left. The name Blue-bag continued to stick to Pelle, and nothing had ever stung him so much; and there was no chance of his getting rid of it before the summer came, and that was a long way off.
Sometimes when I am disinclined to listen to the preacher at church, I turn to the hymn-book, and when one strikes my eye, I cover the name at the bottom, and guess. It is almost invariably Watts or Wesley; after those, there are very few which are good for much. "'Calm on the listening ear of night' is a fine hymn, but even that lacks the virility of the old saints."
"They'll not object; besides, you can sing low. You've got the knack of singin' soft better than any man I ever heard." "Well, what shall it be?" returned the gratified Gaspard. "One of Sankey's hymns," said the sergeant, with the remotest semblance of a twinkle in his eye, as he took a small hymn-book from under his pillow and gave it to his friend.
On this second visit to the West-Indies we had many poor Sundays poor, I mean, from a sailor's point of view. The organ was often lashed, and I had enough to do to keep my balance, the crew on such occasions clinging to fixtures such as hatchways and stanchions with one hand, and holding the hymn-book in the other, singing heartily:
A pious, psalm-singing, thoroughly Calvinistic youth he seemed to be having a bible or a hymn-book under his arm whenever he walked the street, and most exemplary in his attendance at sermon and lecture.
But the mother had put him to the proof, for she still had John's hymn-book and his confirmation verse; and, inasmuch as the stranger did not know this verse and could not tell who were his sponsors, or what had happened to him on the day when Brosi's Severin arrived with his English wife, and later on when the new well was dug at the town-hall inasmuch as he did not satisfy these and other proofs, he could not be the right man.
Malcourt, in his arm-chair by the open window, lay back full length, every fibre of him vibrating with laughter. Dolly Wilming at the piano continued running over the pretty firework melodies of last season's metropolitan success a success built entirely on a Viennese waltz, the air of which might have been taken from almost any popular Yankee hymn-book.
She welcomed it gratefully, aware that it was in no wise due to her own effort, and spreading a hymn-book open for the first song, stooped to allow the small boy next her to look on, then lent her voice as freely as she could to the chirping chorus.
Wiggs stood before them with a dilapidated hymn-book in her hand. "Now, you all must hush talking so we kin all sing a hymn; I'll read it over, then we'll all sing it together. 'When upon life's billers you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged thinking all is lost, Count yer many blessin's, name 'em one by one, An' it will surprise you what the Lord hath done!"
And yet; he was always so different from other people; and once, in church, he had handed her the hymn-book with his finger pointing to a certain verse. She always fancied that her secret fidelity of heart rose from the fact that Justin Peabody was "different." From the hour of their first acquaintance, she was ever comparing him with his companions, and always to his advantage.
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