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As soon as ever they were alone, he seized both Jael's hands, and, looking her full in the face, said: "One word is she alive?" "She is." "Thank god! Bless the tongue that tells me that. My good Jael! my best friend!" And, with that, kissed her heartily on both cheeks. She received this embrace like a woman of wood; a faint color rose, but retired directly, and left her cheek as pale as before.
"Where is Henry Little?" said Grace, still holding her tight by the eye, and speaking very slowly, and in such a tone, low, but solemn and commanding; a tone that compelled reply. "Where is Henry Little?" When this was so repeated, Jael moved a little, and her lips began to quiver. "Where is Henry Little?" Jael's lips opened feebly, and some inarticulate sounds issued from them.
"Yea, my little one, lest seeing thee minister to a malefactor some spy or guard might take thee." "And would they take one young like me, who never did Rome harm?" "All do Rome harm who cry beneath her heel." "I fear not. I can hide in the bushes and keep the evil beast away. And when the road is clear I can wet the dry lips of Jael's father." The woman hesitated.
And were not his followers hanged on two thousand crosses until the wild dogs of Palestine broke their fast on Jewish flesh?" Jael had grown excited as Sara questioned him. He paced the floor. "Yea," he answered, "yea, did wild dogs feast on Jewish flesh, even the flesh of thy Jael's father!
Gideon, Jephthah, Samson, and David are strong-handed men, some of whom are not outdone by any Polynesian chieftain in the matter of murder and treachery; while Deborah's jubilation over Jael's violation of the primary duty of hospitality, proffered and accepted under circumstances which give a peculiarly atrocious character to the murder of the guest; and her witch-like gloating over the picture of the disappointment of the mother of the victim
Fynes gave him high testimonials, and they parted with mutual regret. It took Grace a day to get over her interview with Mr. Beresford; and when with Jael's help she was calm again, she received a letter from Coventry, indited in tones of the deepest penitence, but reminding her that he had offered her his life, had made no resistance when she offered to take it, and never would.
I'm a better judge of that than you, and I say you are the best girl and the most unselfish girl in the world; and the proof is that, instead of sitting down and nursing your own griefs, you are going to pluck up courage, and be a comfort to poor Mr. Raby in his lonely condition." These words appeared to sink into Jael's mind: she put her hands to her head, and pondered them.
On this Lally grabbed at it and caught Jael's right hand, which closed directly on the letter like a vise. "Are these your manners?" said she. "Give over now." "I tell you I will have it!" said he, fiercely, for he had caught sight of the handwriting. He seized her hand and applied his knuckles to the back of it with all his force.
So she remained riveted. Had Jael been conscious, and culpable, nothing could have escaped a scrutiny so penetrating. Even unconscious as she was, Jael's brain and body began to show some signs they were not quite impervious to the strange magnetic power which besieged them so closely.
Why stand here and poison the poor young lady's pleasure such as 'tis and torment thyself." Jael's own eyes filled, and that proof of sympathy inclined Henry all the more to listen to her reason. "You are wise, and good, and kind," he said. "But oh, Jael, I adore her so, I'd rather be in hell with her than in heaven without her. Half a loaf is better than no bread.
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