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Updated: June 18, 2025
And there they sat in Abbot Thurstan's hall, and waited for Sweyn and the Danes. But the worst Job's messenger who, during that evil winter and spring, came into the fen, was Bishop Egelwin of Durham. He it was, most probably, who brought the news of Yorkshire laid waste with fire and sword.
Poor Swift! he was conscious of insanity's approach; he repeated annually Job's curse upon the day of his birth; he died a madman.
Jeremy, panting from his encounter, cast about for a weapon and soon found a cutlass, with which he armed himself. He turned toward the mainmast foot once more, and to his joy discovered that his shot had taken effect. The mulatto had disappeared under the trampling mass of fighting men, and Job's tall figure still towered by the mast.
Job's consideration for the poor was so delicate that he kept servants to wait upon them constantly. His guests, enraptured by his charitableness, frequently offered themselves as attendants to minister to the poor in his house, but Job always insisted upon paying them for their services.
"You can bet your life 'at this job's been done by them whose little game Wallingford were going to checkmate!" declared one man. "I've allus said 'at he were running a rare old risk. We know what t' old saying is about new brooms sweeping clean all very well, is that, but ye can smash a new broom if ye use it over vigorously.
"Mary Embry, Job's sister-in-law, was settin' right behind me, and I heard her say, 'Amen! as fervent as if somebody had been prayin'. Job set there, lookin' like a sheep-killin' dog, and Sally Ann went right on.
"In the first place, you are one of those men whose fortunes are listed in the top schedule the swollen fortunes. Socialists would put you in the predatory class." "Drennie," he groaned, "do you keep your heaven locked behind a gate of the Needle's Eye? It's not my fault that I'm rich. It was wished on me. If you are serious, I'm willing to become poor as Job's turkey.
"So am I. Ef you ain't in a hurry, le'ss walk along together." "All right, sir," answered Ben. "I think I know what's comin," he said to himself. "You're stayin' at your Uncle Job's, ain't you?" asked Deacon Pitkin. "Yes, sir." "You don't calc'late to keep on there, do you?" "No, sir; he would like to have me stay and work in the shop, but I don't fancy shoemaking." "Jest so.
Perkins' words could not drive out of her mind the Job she loved and the Dan whom she wished she could love. How comely she looked as she stood in the doorway at twilight! Any one might have been proud of her. The next fall was Job's last term at school.
Why should we be servants to the poor? " The happy, God-pleasing life led by Job for many years excited the hatred of Satan, who had an old grudge against him. Near Job's house there was an idol worshipped by the people. Suddenly doubts assailed the heart of Job, and he asked himself: "Is this idol really the creator of heaven and earth? How can I find out the truth about it?"
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