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I will tell this Jabez that the provisions for the journey will be bought elsewhere." "Nay, buy them from him, and if Nehesi grumbles at the price, pay it on my account. The way to a Hebrew's heart is through his treasure bags.
She did not feel as though she could even sit at the table with Uncle Jabez that noon, and remained outside while the miller ate. He never remarked upon her absence, or paid her the least attention. Oh, how heartily Ruth wished now that she had never come away from Darrowtown and had never seen the Red Mill. The next Monday morning the rural mail carrier brought her a long letter from Helen.
He was of a miserly nature, was Uncle Jabez Potter, and the old boat which its first owner had never considered worth coming after, following some spring freshet served the miller well enough to transport his goods across the river. Tim Lakeby's store, on the north shore of the river, was in sight of the Red Mill.
Then a triumphant note entered her speech; the smoke rose thicker for an instant, then dissolved; and as it vanished, high on the rocky cliff, framed, as it seemed, in the solid rock itself, stood the grim, cold figure of the dead Red Jabez. In this, her grave extremity, Milo the strong, Milo the slave, more than all, Milo the faithful, had not failed her.
As now one, and now another, of these contradictory reports prevailed, ebullitions of courage and symptoms of panic alternated among the people. It was easy to see that they contemplated the undertaking, on which they were embarking, not without a good deal of nervousness. Abner was going from group to group, trying to keep up their spirits. "Hello," he exclaimed, coming across Jabez Flint.
'Then 'twill make Mary worth seekin' after? 'She'll need it. Her Maker ain't done much for her outside nor yet in. 'That ain't no odds. Jabez shook his head till the water showered off his hat-brim. 'If Mary has money, she'll be wed before any likely pore maid. She's cause to be grateful to Jim. 'She hides it middlin' close, then, said Jesse.
" save through you, his friend and counsellor," she went on, turning away her face. "Jabez has learned that it is in the mind of Pharaoh utterly to destroy the people of Israel." "How does he know that, Merapi?" "I cannot say, but I think all the Hebrews know. I knew it myself though none had told me.
Jabez Grubb, he would have learned, that, like the celebrated Little Pedlington, it was distinguished by many very remarkable advantages. Thus: "The situation of Pigwacket is eminently beautiful, looking down the lovely valley of Mink River, a tributary of the Musquash.
A feller ain't got no kick comin' when a rattler lands on him; but if a wood dove was to poison him, he'd have a fair right to be put out. The only child 'at Cast Steel had was one daughter; but that don't indicate that paternity was one long vacation for Jabez.
I have gone about, and had good times, and bought many things just as though I really had a right to expect Uncle Jabez to supply every need. "No more of that, Ruth Fielding! You prate of wishing to be independent: be so in any event!" She was young to come to such a determination; yet Ruth's experiences since her parents had died were such as would naturally make her self-assertive.
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