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I had a vague notion that it was something to go round the neck, and I protested that I was nothing of the sort. "'Yes, you are, and you know you are, went on the Dean, 'a regular Job's comforter, croaking all the time, and never seeing any way out of our troubles at all.
Here, therefore, needs no advocate; the judge himself will pronounce him righteous. Thus far Job's cause was good, wherefore he did not need an advocate; his cause pleaded for itself, and for its owner also. But if it was to plead good causes for which Christ is appointed Advocate, then the apostle should have written thus: If any man be righteous, we have an Advocate with the Father.
A few minutes later I found out who she was in love with, found he was equally in love with her; that they were once engaged and still want to get married. Our job's to help them do it." Selwyn's seriousness is a heritage. Frowningly he looked at me. "This is hardly a thing to jest about. I may be very dense, but I fail to understand " For an hour we talked of Madeleine Swink and Mrs.
To those, who from ignorance of the serious injury I have received from this rumour of having dreamed away my life to no purpose, injuries which I unwillingly remember at all, much less am disposed to record in a sketch of my literary life; or to those, who from their own feelings, or the gratification they derive from thinking contemptuously of others, would like job's comforters attribute these complaints, extorted from me by the sense of wrong, to self conceit or presumptuous vanity, I have already furnished such ample materials, that I shall gain nothing by withholding the remainder.
I wish you'd give me your recipe for keeping warm." "Get a new inside." Joe Pillin regarded his old friend with a sort of yearning. "And yet," he said, "I suppose, with your full-blooded habit, your life hangs by a thread, doesn't it?" "A stout one, my boy" "Well, good-bye, Sylvanus. You're a Job's comforter; I must be getting home."
Each demanded a raise of twenty per cent. on his wages, and, when this was refused by Job, threw his money back on the shelf, and walked out without a word. Hour after hour it went on a constant procession of determined men looking into Job's eyes, and each face growing harder, it seemed to him, than the one before.
They had not been insincere in the past; they were not insincere to-day: change of circumstance had introduced a new criterion, that was all. But if I acquitted my two Job's comforters of insincerity, I was yet far from admitting them infallible. Artists had been contemned before, and had lived to turn the laugh on their contemners.
"Till the job's finished," he replied. "And there's quite a lot of it, too. County's got a prosperous streak on. Means to have some real roads. It's about time." Zeke was slowly backing the car preparatory to turning around. "I'm back home now, myself," she called and reddened at once at her unnecessary confidence. What did he care where she was?
He stepped to Endymion's head, jerked off the halter and swung up into the saddle. "All ready, Shandon?" Again Hume laughed. Dick Venable waited a moment and snapped his watch shut. "My job's to start this race if there's one man here to run it," he said. "Shandon isn't here. It isn't my job to express any opinions.
'But our work lives, I cried, with a sudden great gasp of happiness. 'It's the job that matters, not the men that do it. And our job's done. We have won, old chap won hands down and there is no going back on that. We have won anyway; and if Peter has had a slice of luck, we've scooped the pool ... After all, we never expected to come out of this thing with our lives.
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