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Confident once more of my safety, I took the rolled piece of paper from the folds of my clothing and opened it carefully. Inside was a note from Bernibus, written in a legible cursive that flowed from an obviously educated hand. It read as follows: "My Dear Jehu, it is I, Bernibus, your friend and comrade, who writes to you.
At length the two vehicles turned into the Konigstrasse, the principal thoroughfare of the capital, and here the Englishman's cab came to a stand. The jehu climbed down and opened the door. "Did Herr say the Continental?" he asked. "No; the Grand." The driver shrugged, remounted his box, and drove on.
So, then, the Companions of Jehu were not mere thieves, but, on the contrary, as rumor said, gentlemen of good family, who, while the noble Bretons were laying down their lives for the royalist cause in the West, were, here in the East, braving the scaffold to send to the combatants the money they took from the government.
Whereat the cumbrous Jehu was faintly moved to a responsive grin. "She ain't bad-looking, neither!" he muttered to himself, and he was in a somewhat better humour when at last he ondescended to start.
As the jehu flourished his whip, and the hack rattled along on its way to the hotel, Madison gazed idly out of the windows, watching with interest the luxurious shops and the crowds of busy people hurrying along the sidewalks. How different it all looked to-day than when he was last in New York! Now, he viewed the scene with different eyes.
Elijah's other appointments, coeval with his own, had already taken effect, Jehu was king of Israel, Elisha was prophet, and he only had not attained the dignity to which he had been designated. He comes now with his message from the king of Damascus to Elisha.
"One moment," said Bonaparte; "you will take my despatches to Paris, won't you?" "Ah! I see; I am the courier you spoke of just now to Bourrienne." "Precisely." "Come then." "Wait one moment. The young men you arrested " "The Companions of Jehu?" "Yes. Well, it seems that they were all of noble families. They were fanatics rather than criminals.
Of course she impressed as usual upon the Jehu that he was not to beat his horse. The horse, which was a wretched old screw, refused, in consequence, to go at more than a walking pace; and as Lady Burton was in a hurry to get back, and was fuming with impatience inside, she at last forgot herself so far as to put her head out of the window and cry to the driver, "Why don't you beat him?
"Thought I remembered. Year or so ago?" "Yes." "Had a great white cotton umbrill, a box like a shoe-kit, and suthin' like a pair o' clo'es-frames?" Greenleaf could but smile at the description of his easel and artist's outfit; still he contented himself with a brief assent. "Keeps tight as the bark to a white-oak," muttered Jehu to himself.
The succeeding dynasty, that of Jehu, who had rebelled against Omri's son and his Phoenician queen, courted Assyria, and encouraged her to press ever harder on Damascus. It was a suicidal policy; for in the continued existence of a strong Aramaean state on her north lay Israel's one hope of long life.
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