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He kissed Grace again and again, and comforted her; said she was not to blame; honest people were no match for villains: if she had been twice as simple, he would have forgiven her at sight of the stiletto; that cleared her, in his mind, better than words. He was now soft and gentle as a lamb. He begged Jael's pardon humbly for leaving Hillsborough without telling her.
He found Miss Carden at home, and she looked quietly pleased at his unexpected arrival: but Jael's color came and went, and her tranquil bosom rose and fell slowly, but grandly, for a minute, as she lowered her head over her work. This was a heavenly change to Henry Little.
Prophetess she was, fighter she was, she could burst into triumphant approval of Jael's bloody deed; and yet with the same lips could speak this profound word. She had learned that 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, summed up all duty, and was the beginning of all good in man.
"Nay, not a dog. But after the head of Jael's father fell low, something seemed reaching out long dark arms to gather me in in to Jael's father and I feared." The mother pressed the hand of the child in hers. Reassured by the warm strong clasp, he smiled as his mother said, "It were but childish fear. There is nothing by the roadside reaching dark arms out to you."
"But I'll put an end to it all. I've got the key, and I've his permission, and I'll oh, Mr. Raby, there's something more in this than we know." She darted to the picture, and unlocked the padlock, and, with Jael's assistance, began to turn the picture. Then Mr. Raby rose and seemed to bend his mind inward, but he neither forbade, nor encouraged, this impulsive act of Grace Carden's.
Her approval of Jael's deed by no means warrants our approving it, but we may thankfully see that though she felt the fierce throbbing of desire for vengeance, she also felt this 'Them that love Him; that is the Alpha and the Omega of all. Our love must depend on our knowledge. Deborah's knowledge was a mere skeleton outline as compared with ours.
But if we elect to join the other army for there is another army, and men have wills that enable them to lift themselves up against God, the Ruler of all things then the old story, from which my first text is taken, will fulfil itself again in regard to us 'the stars in their courses will fight against' us; and Sisera, lying stiff and stark, with Jael's tent-peg through his temples, and the swollen corpses being swirled down to the stormy sea by 'that ancient river, the river Kishon, will be a grim parable of the end of the men that set themselves against God, and so have the universe against them.
Then will the smell of Jael's flesh draw dogs with whetted fangs. Then " "Stop! Stay!" cried Sara. "Wilt thou spare Jael?" "When thou art mine, then Jael shall be spared." Sara turned to the bench. "Jael Jael Jael," she called, drawing her long hair across her face. "Tangle not thy fair tresses. Soft must they lie across my cheek when thou art mine.
Touch thee not?" and he snatched the knife from her hand and flung it into the pile of nets, as he said, "Flame doth become thy cheek and fire thine eye! Come, nay thou comest not? Then will Jael hang on a cross. Then will Jael's flayed back draw many stinging flies. Then will Jael's moans for water to cool his veins drained dry of blood, make sweet music.
The former remembered Dr Pendle's unacknowledged secret, and wondered if the gipsy was in possession of it, while the latter was satisfied that the bishop had been driven away by the fears roused by Mother Jael's communication, whatever that might be.
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