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If you had asked my advice in the matter which you didn't do, Marilla I'd have said for mercy's sake not to think of such a thing, that's what." This Job's comforting seemed neither to offend nor to alarm Marilla. She knitted steadily on. "I don't deny there's something in what you say, Rachel. I've had some qualms myself. But Matthew was terrible set on it. I could see that, so I gave in.
The first of it all was when he came up last night to see would I board him, an' of course when I understood as it was me as was goin' to have to take him in I never rested till I knowed hide an' hair of who I was to take in down to the last button on Job's coat." "And wh " asked Mrs. Lathrop. "Well, I'll tell you all I found out myself; an' I tell you I worked hard findin' it out too, for Mr.
And he's the only member of the Government who, I think, would like to meet our views; and he can't. To use the language of Lowell about the campaign of Governor Kent these British are hell-bent on starving the Germans out, and neutrals have mighty few rights till that job's done. The worst of it is that the job won't be done for a very long time.
Tom Reed liked Dan and thought, of course, that matters were settled between him and his black-eyed daughter. He felt to-day like telling this young aristocrat from the Pine Tree Ranch that it would be agreeable to both himself and Jane if he would seek other company. Only physical weakness kept him from following as Jane walked away by Job's side patting Bess' neck.
This dog also seemed to take a fancy to my boots, and I discovered afterwards that it had licked off every bit of blacking from them. I was positively ashamed of being seen in them. Mrs. Finsworth, who, I must say, is not much of a Job's comforter, said: "Oh! we are used to Bibbs doing that to our visitors." Mr.
"There must be witchcraft at work here!" "Nonsense!" exclaimed his brother. "It's more likely the craft of Blakeson & Grinder, with Waddington helping them." "Well, if a human agency made these twenty-five men disappear, prove it!" insisted Walter. His brother did not know what to say. "Well, go on with the work," was Job's final conclusion.
The very play in which she was destined first to present herself before a London audience was condemned beforehand. To make a debut as Parthenia was to court certain failure. The very actors who rehearsed with her were Job's comforters. She saw in their faces a dreary vista of empty houses, of hostile critics, of general disaster.
Don't let any of these" with a rather scornful glance at Josiah Badger and Ezekiel and the Reverend Absalom "these Job's comforters bother you. Nat, you see that they let her alone, won't you?" Captain Nat nodded. He, too, looked very grave and worn. "I'll tend to them," he said shortly. "Come, Grace," he added; "let's go." But the girl hung back. "Just a minute, Nat," she said.
The deck rocked beneath Jeremy's feet, where he stood by the companion, ready to carry Job's orders below. As the dense smoke was swept away forward on the wind, they could see the Revenge, her rigging still further damaged by the volley, going about on the starboard tack, and making straight for the shore.
May we not well say that if Job's prosperity was blessed prosperity, his adversity, likewise, was blessed adversity? "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning;" and the night of weeping will bear a fruit more rich and permanent than any day of rejoicing could produce. "The evening and the morning were the first day."
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